The bride of the Lamb / Sergius Bulgakov ; translated by Boris Jakim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bulgakov, Sergiĭ, 1871-1944.

Standardized Title:

Nevi͡esta Agnt͡sa. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Doctrines.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

Physical Description:

xviii, 531 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans ; Edinburgh : T&T Clark, 2002.

Summary:

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 tradition. This book is now available for the first time in English, complete with an introduction to Bulgakov and his theological context.

For readers new to Russian religious thought, The Bride of the Lamb presents a fresh and intriguing approach to Christian doctrine. Bulgakov examines issues of ecclesiology and eschatology from a sophiological perspective. This distinctive Russian approach, based on the doctrine of Sophia, the wisdom of God, sees the Creator and creation intimately linked as Divine-humanity. The Bride of the Lamb explores the nature of created beings, the relationship between God and the world, the role of the church, and such eschatological themes as the second coming of Jesus, resurrection and judgment, and the afterlife.

Rendered into superb English by translator Boris Jakim, The Bride of the Lamb will breathe new life into Western approaches to Christian doctrine.

Contents:

Section I The Creator and Creation

1. The Creation of the World "Out of Nothing" 3

1. Cosmism 3

2. Dualism 4

3. The Sophianicity of the World 7

a. Platonism 8

b. Aristotelianism 9

c. Patristics 15

d. Western Theology (Thomas Aquinas) 19

e. "Creation Out of Nothing" 33

f. The Eternity of Creation and the Temporality of Its Being 56

4. The World Soul and Its Hypostases 79

5. The Eternity and Temporality of Man 103

2. Creaturely Freedom 125

3. Evil 147

1. Creaturely Limitedness and Imperfection 147

2. Creaturely Freedom as the Possibility of Good and of Evil 150

3. Original Sin 164

4. God and Creaturely Freedom 193

1. Divine Providence with Regard to the World 193

2. Divine Providence with Regard to Man 201

3. Divine Causality and Creaturely Freedom 204

4. The Problem of Predestination 212

5. God and Creaturely Freedom 220

Section II The Church, History, and the Afterlife

5. The Church 253

1. The Essence of the Church 253

2. The Church as a Sacramental and Hierarchical Organization 268

3. The Limits of Sacramentalism 290

4. Grace 294

6. History 315

7. Death and the State after Death 349

Section III Eschatology

8. Parousia, Resurrection, and the City of God 379

2. The End of This Age 382

3. The Parousia 387

4. The Transfiguration of the World 417

5. The Universal Resurrection 429

6. Judgment and Separation 454

7. The Eternal in the Temporal (On the Eternity of Bliss and Torments) 466

8. The City of God 519.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802839150

OCLC:

47161604