Sergius Bulgakov – Bibliography

Prepared by Brandon Gallaher

September 26, 2005

This is not a complete bibliography of what is available in English (if people read French and Italian and soon German much more is available in those languages). A number of bibliographies exist but they are all more or less out of date. See especially:


Akulinin, V. N. S. N. Bulgakov Bibliografiia. Moscow: Novosibirsk, 1996.

Naumov, Kliment. Bibliographie Des Œuvres de Serge Boulgakov. Bibliothèque Russe de L’Institut D’Études Slaves. Tome LXVIII/1. Série: Écrivains russes en France. Paris: Institut D’Études Slaves, 1984.

Prof. A. Smith has translated Bulgakov's The Burning Bush by I do not know when it will be published.

Jakim has also just finished translating Bulgakov's sermons but I do not know when they will be published.

Agnets Bozhii (Moscow: Obshchedostupnyi Pravoslavnyi Universitet, 2000).  English translation: Lamb of God, abridged trans. and ed. Boris Jakim, Forthcoming from Eerdmans 2005.

‘Evkharisticheskii Dogmat’, Put’, Part I: 20 (1930), 3-46 and Part II: 21 (1930), 3-33.

English translation: ‘The Eucharistic Dogma’ in The Holy Grail and the Eucharist, trans. and ed. Boris Jakim (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Books, 1997), 63-138.

Filosofiia Khoziaistva in S. N. Bulgakov: Sochineniia v Dvukh Tomakh, 2 Volumes, Volume 1 (Moscow: Nauka, 1993), 47-308. English translation: Philosophy of Economy: The World as Household, trans. Catherine Evtuhov (New  Haven/London: Yale UP, 2000).

‘Ipostas’ i Ipostasnost’ (Scholia k Svetu Nevechernemu)’ in Sbornik statei posviashchennykh Petru Berngardovichu Struve ko dniu tridtsatipiatiletiia ego nauchno-publitsisticheskoi deiatel’nosti, 1890-1925 (Prague: Legiografie, 1925), 353-371. English translation: ‘Protopresbyter Sergii Bulgakov: Hypostasis and Hypostaticity: Scholia to the Unfading Light’, revised trans., ed. and intro. of A. F. Dobbie Bateman by Anastassy Brandon Gallaher and Irina Kukota. St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly, 49.1-2 (2005), 5-46.

Nevesta Agntsa, Paris: YMCA Press, 1945. English translation: The Bride of the Lamb, abridged trans. and ed. Boris Jakim (Edinburgh/Grand Rapids, Mich.: T & T Clark/Eerdmans, 2002).

Sophia, The Wisdom of God: An Outline of Sophiology, trans. Revised [eliminating gender specific language with no regard to the Russian] by Christopher Bamford from that of Patrick Thompson, O. Fielding Clarke and Xenia Braikevitch (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, [1937] 1993).

Uteshitel’ (Moscow: Obshchedostupnyi Pravoslavnyi Universitet, 2003). English translation: The Comforter, abridged trans. ad ed. Boris Jakim, (Grand Rapids, Mich./Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2004).

Williams, Rowan., ed., trans. and introd., Sergii Bulgakov: Towards a Russian Political Theology. (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1999).

The Orthodox Church. Trans. Rev. Lydia Kesich. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press [=SVS], [1932] 1988.

“Dogmat i dogmatica” in Zhivoie Priedanie: pravoslavie v sovremennosti [Living Tradition: Orthodoxy in Modernity]. Paris: YMCA, 1937. 9-24. (Pravoslavnaia mysl’ v.3). Translation: “Dogma and Dogmatic Theology.” Trans. Peter Bouteneff. Tradition Alive: On the Church and the Christian Life in Our Time - Readings from the Eastern Church. Ed. Michael Plekon. Lanham, MD: Sheed & Ward, 2003.

Drug zhenikha (Io. 3:28-30): o pravoslavnom pochitanii Predtechi [The Friend of the Bridegroom (John 3:28-30): On the Orthodox Veneration of the Forerunner.  Paris: YMCA-Press, 1927. French translation: L’ami de l’époux.  Trans. Constantin Andronikoff and Tatiana Maillard. Lausanne: L’Age D’Homme, 1997. Slightly abridged English translation: The Friend of the Bridegroom: On the Orthodox Veneration of the Forerunner. Trans. Boris Jakim.  Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2003.

“The Eucharist and the Social Problems of Modern Society.” Journal of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius 21 (September, 1933): 10-21.

“Geroizm i podvizhnichestvo (Iz razmyshlenii o religioznoi prirode russkoi intelligentsii) [Heroism and the Spiritual Struggle (Reflections on the Religious Nature of the Russian Intelligentsia)].” Vekhi: sbornik statei o russkoi intelligentsii [Landmarks: A Collection of Essays on the Russian Intelligentsia]. Second Edition. Tipografiia V. M. Sablina, 1909. 23-69. Translation: Williams 1999.  69-112. A full translation of the collection exists in English: Vekhi/Landmarks: A Collection of Articles on the Russian intelligentsia. Trans. Marshall S. Shatz and Judith E. Zimmermann. Armonk, NY/London: M. E. Sharpe. 17-49.

“The Guardian of the House of the Lord. (To the memory of the Most Holy Patriarch Tikhon). An address delivered at Prague 27 Apr. 1925.” Trans. D. Mirsky.  The Slavonic Review 4.10. (1925): 156-164.

“Karl Marks kak religioznyi tip: ego otnoshenie k religii chelovekobozhiia L. Feierbakha.” Moskovskii ezhenedel’nik, (1906): 22: 34-43; 23: 24-33; 24: 42-52; and 25: 46-54 and Dva Grada: issledovaniia o prirode obshchestvennykh idealov [Two Cities: Investigations on the Nature of Public Ideals]. Two Volumes.  Moscow: Tovarishchestvo tipografii A. I. Mamontova, 1911. Volume 1: 69-105.  Translation: Karl Marx as a Religious Type: His Relation to the Religion of Anthropotheism of L. Feuerbach. Trans. Luba Barna. Ed. Virgil Lang. Intro. Donald W. Treadgold. Belmont, Mass.: Nordland Pub. Co., 1979.

Na piru bogov. Pro i contra: Sovremennye dialogi. Iz Glubiny. De Profundis. Sbornik statei o russkoi revoliutsii. Moscow/St Petersburg: Russkaia Mysl’, 1918.  111-169. Translation: At the Feast of the Gods: Contemporary Dialogues—Dialogue the Fifth. Trans. A. G. Pashkov. The Slavonic Review 1.3 (March 1923): 604-22. See also The Slavonic Review, 1922-1923,
1.1--pp.172-83 and 1.2—pp.391-400. A contemporary translation: Out of the Depths (De
Profundis): A Collection of Articles on the Russian Revolution . Trans. and Ed. William Woehrlin. Introd. Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. Irvine, Calif.: Charles Schlacks Jr., Publisher, 1986. 65-118.  “The Old and the New: A Study in Russian Religion.” The Slavonic Review 2.6 (March 1924): 487-513.

“Social Teaching in Modern Russian Orthodox Theology” [1934]. Orthodoxy and Modern Society. Ed. Robert Bird. New Haven, Conn.: Variable Press, 1995.  5-25.

“A Word on Pentecost.” JFAS 9 (June 1930): 27-31.

“By Jacob’s Well—John iv. 23 (On the Actual Unity of the Divided Church in Faith, Prayer and Sacraments).” JFAS 22 (December 1933): 7-17 [Abridged].

Collection, 1-11. Russian original: “U Kladezia Iakovlia (Io. 4:23). O real’nom edinstvie razdielennoi Tserkvi v Vierie Molitvie i Tainstvie.” Khristianskoe Vozsoedinenie: Ekumenicheskaia Problema v Pravoslavnom Soznanii. Sbornik Staei. Paris: YMCA, 1933. 9-32. Recollected in Tradition Alive: On the Church and the Christian Life in Our Time-Readings from the Eastern Church.  Ed. Michael Plekon. Lanham, MD: Sheed & Ward, 2003.

“The Church’s Ministry” [1927]. Faith and Order: Proceedings of the World Conference—Lausanne, August 3-21, 1927. Ed. H. N. Bate. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1928. 258-263. “The Church Universal.” JFAS 25 (September 1934): 10-15 in Collection. 16-21.

“Does Orthodoxy Possess An Outward Authority of Dogmatic Infallibility?” The Christian East 7.1 (April 1926): 12-24. Russian Original: “Ocherki ucheniia o tserkvi. (II). Obladaet li pravoslavie vneshhim avtoritetom dogmaticheskoi nepogreshitel’nosti?” Put’ 2 (1926): 47-58.

Father Sergius Bulgakov 1871-1944. A Collection of articles by Fr. Bulgakov for the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius and now reproduced by the Fellowship to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the death of this great Ecumenist. Introd. N. Zernov. London: The Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, 1969.

“The Hierarchy and the Sacraments.” The Ministry and the Sacraments: Report of the Theological Commission Appointed by the Continuation Committee of the Faith and Order Movement Under the Chairmanship of The Right Rev. Arthur Cayley Headlam. Ed. Roderic Dunkerley. London: Student Christian Movement Press, 1937. 95-123.

“‘One Holy, Catholic And Apostolic Church.’” JFAS 12 (June 1931): 17-31 and in the same period: The Christian East 12.3 (Autumn 1931): 90-104.

“Outlines of the Teaching about the Church--The Church and Non-Orthodoxy.”  American Church Monthly 30.6 (1931): 411-423 and 31.1 (1932): 13-26.  [Abridged translation]. Russian Original: “Ocherki ucheniia o tserkvi. (III). Tserkov’ i ‘Inoslavie’.” Put’ 4 (1926): 3-26.

Pain, James and Nicolas Zernov, Eds. Sergius Bulgakov: A Bulgakov Anthology.  Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976.

“The Papal Encyclical and the Lausanne Conference.” The Christian East 9.3 (1928): 116-127. Russian original: “K Voprosu o Lozanskoi Konferentsii. (Lozanskaia Konferentsiia i Entsiklika Papy Piia XI: Mortalium Animos.).” Put’ 13 (1928): 71-82.

“The Question of the Veneration of the Virgin Mary at the Edinburgh Conference.” Sobornost’ 12 (1937): 28-31.

“Spiritual Intercommunion.” Sobornost’ 4 (1935): 3-7 in Collection. 29-32.

The Vatican Dogma. Tr.? South Canaan, PA.: St Tikhon’s Press, 1959. Russian Original: “Ocherki ucheniia o tserkvi. IV. O Vatikanskom dogmate.’ Put’ 15 (1929): 39-80 and 16 (1929): 19-48.

“Ways to Church Reunion.” Sobornost 2 (June 1935): 7-15 in Collection 22-28.