The Revolutionary Spirit of Revelation: Sergii Bulgakov’s Personalist Sociology

by Regula M. Zwahlen

During World War II, toward the end of his life, Sergii Bulgakov spoke about the “revolutionary spirit of Revelation.” With this phrase, he meant that divine “judgement is not only on individual persons, but also on the social and political system, all kinds of despotism, both state and economic.

Regula M. Zwahlen

PhD, the scientific director of the Sergii Bulgakov Research Center at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She is coeditor of the German edition of Sergii Bulgakov’s work and coedits the journal Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West. She is the author of Das revolutionäre Ebenbild Gottes: Anthropologien der Menschenwürde bei Nikolaj A. Berdjaev und Sergej N. Bulgakov (2010) and has published on Russian intellectual history, Russian and Soviet concepts of personality, Orthodox human rights discourse, and political theology.

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