Foreword by Archbishop Rowan Williams

Sergei Bulgakov, born in Russian in 1871, was one of the principal Eastern theologians of the twentieth century. At the age of 36 he was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Kiev. After a crisis of faith, Bulgakov had declared himself an unbeliever in 1888, but in a slow process he moved from Marxism to Idealism, and then from Idealism to a rediscovered Orthodoxy. By the time of the two Revolutions of 1917, Bulgakov was one of the best known Orthodox theologians in Russia. In 1918 he was ordained a priest, and fled Moscow in danger of imminent arrest. Arriving in Paris in 1925 he was to live and work there until his death in 1944, his life inextricably bound up with the Russian theological institute, Saint-Serge, of which he was a founder member and subsequently professor, rector, and dean.

Well known as a dogmatic theologian, Bulgakov is above all a theologian of Wisdom - so much so that his theology has been called, from the Greek word for wisdom, sophia, a ‘sophiological theology,’ a theology of the wisdom of God. In this timely work Aidan Nichols introduces the life and work of Bulgakov and provides a systematic presentation of his dogmatic theology.

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"This present book has appeared at exactly the right moment. Alike in Russia and in the West, we are witnessing a veritable 'Bulgakov renaissance'…this is the first comprehensive and systemic survey of his theology in English." -- Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia