Translated by Thomas Allan SmithWith its scholarly discussions of myth, German idealist philosophy, negative theology, and mysticism, shot through with reflections on personal religious experiences, Unfading Light documents what a life in Orthodoxy came to mean for Sergius Bulgakov on the tumultuous eve of the 1917 October Revolution. Written in the final decade of the Russian Silver Age, the book is a typical product of that era of experimentation in all fields o...

This first English translation represents Sergius Bulgakov’s final, fully developed word on the Eucharist.The debate around the controversial doctrine of the Eucharist as sacrifice has dogged relations between Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches since the Reformation. In The Eucharistic Sacrifice, the famous Russian theologian Sergius Bulgakov cuts through long-standing polemics surrounding the notion of the Eucharist as sacrifice and offers a stun...

With its scholarly discussions of myth, German idealist philosophy, negative theology, and mysticism, shot through with reflections on personal religious experiences, Unfading Light documents what a life in Orthodoxy came to mean for Sergius Bulgakov on the tumultuous eve of the 1917 October Revolution. Written in the final decade of the Russian Silver Age, the book is a typical product of that era of experimentation in all fields of culture and life. Bulgakov referred to the book...

What role, if any, should AI technologies have in the church and to what end?In this book, Walter Sisto contends that the sophiological perspective of Father Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1994) lays a path for the church during the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes Bulgakov's theology is not merely his Russian Orthodox sophiological framework, but his prophetic vision for the Church's active engagement with modernity-a vision this book seeks to ext...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A ladder set between earth and heaven becomes, for Sergius Bulgakov, a way of asking how God’s presence is borne into the created world. In Jacob’s Ladder, Bulgakov begins with the Genesis vision of angels ascending and descending, then follows angelic appearances across Scripture: messengers at decisive thresholds, heavenly hosts, guardians, witnesses, and ministers of divine action. He is not interested in angels as ornament, folklore...

Sergius Bulgakov is widely considered to be the twentieth century's foremost Orthodox theologian, and his book The Comforter is an utterly comprehensive and profound study of the Holy Spirit.Encyclopedic in scope, The Comforter explores all aspects of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, as they are viewed in the Orthodox tradition and throughout church history. The book has sections on the development of the doctrine of the Spirit in early Christianity and on the deve...

Sergius Bulgakov is thought by many to be the twentieth century's foremost Russian Orthodox theologian. The Bride of the Lamb is widely regarded as Bulgakov's magnum opus and, even more, as one of the greatest works ever produced in the modern Orthodox church. This book is now available in English thanks to esteemed translator Boris Jakim, along with an introduction to Bulgakov and his theological context.For readers new to Russian religious thought, The Bride of the La...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.John the Baptist stands at the threshold where prophecy fulfills itself by yielding place to another. Sergius Bulgakov’s study does not treat Saint John as a decorative figure of the Gospel background, but as the witness whose whole vocation is to prepare, point, and then recede. Following the scriptural accounts of John’s preaching, baptism, imprisonment, and death, Bulgakov asks what it means to bear testimony to a truth that cannot b...

What is our participation in the divine humanity? In explaining this important doctrine, Sergius Bulgakov begins by surveying the field of Christology with special reference to the divine humanity. He considers the role of the Divine Sophia, examines the foundations of the Incarnation, explores the nature of Christ's divine consciousness, and ponders Christ's ministries while on earth. A profound discussion of Christ's kenosis as a model for humanity rounds out this comprehensive ...

This book explores the Mariology of one of the most unique and fascinating thinkers in the Russian Orthodox tradition, Father Sergius Bulgakov. Bulgakov develops the Russian sophianic mariological tradition initiated by Vladimir Solo’ev and argues that Mary is the "soul of the world" or the pneumatological hypostasis. Mary is the first and greatest disciple to be adopted by the Holy Spirit. By situating Mary within the life and mission of the Holy Spirit, Bulgakov maintains the respect and...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the image of a bush aflame yet unconsumed, Sergius Bulgakov finds not a decorative symbol but a point of entry into the Christian mystery of Mary, the Incarnation, and creation’s capacity to bear divine presence. The Burning Bush follows the Exodus scene through patristic exegesis, hymnography, dogma, and philosophical theology, asking how the Virgin can be understood as Theotokos without reducing her either to an instrument of salva...