Professor emeritus of patristic and Byzantine studies at Durham University and honorary fellow of the St Irenaeus Orthodox Institute at Radboud University, Nijmegen.
It is readily agreed, perhaps too readily agreed—both by Orthodox and non-Orthodox—that Orthodox theology is “apophatic,” that it proceeds by denial rather than by affirmation. The Roman Catholic priest Joseph Famerée, very much a friend of Orthodoxy, asserts, “So, it is by indicating what God is not that the theologian most truly teaches. God is[…..]
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Being human: how could that be an issue? Perhaps it wasn’t in the past, when what it is to be human was agreed by all and taken for granted. But if we look back to the past, we must try to ensure we look back to the real past, and not simply project back an[…..]
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Autobiography and theology do not necessarily belong together. There are many theologians who reveal nothing directly of themselves in their writings. There are, however, exceptions, beginning with the Apostle Paul, who reveals something of himself in his letters to the churches. These exceptions do not, so far as I can see, constitute a tradition; they[…..]
The first place, I think, where Fr. Sergius Bulgakov talks about Sophia is in his work, Philosophy of Economy, published in 1912. By this time, Fr. Sergius had already returned to his ancestral faith, though he was still searching, and indeed continued to search.
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