The Wheel #13/14. Being Human. Spring/Summer 2018

Tangling with Orthodox Tradition in the Modern West: Natural Law, Homosexuality, and Living Tradition

I find the subject of homosexuality painful. I find this subject difficult. I do not normally comment on how anything affects me personally in an academic context. But this is an exception. At least part of what brought me to Orthodoxy more than twenty-five years ago from my native evangelical Anglicanism was a combination of[…..]

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The Wheel #26/27. Sergii Bulgakov, 1871-1944. Summer/Fall 2021

All Things Shining: Sergii Bulgakov’s Theology of Beauty

Everything is more than itself. Everything shines. It shines because all things are transparent; and beauty, glory is the shining of God through all things: theophaneia. Our essay will explore in Bulgakov’s theology the structure of this shining, in both God and creation, in both the Divine and the Creaturely Sophias. This structure is the[…..]