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A Note on Terminology: “Godmanhood” and “Divine-Humanity”

by Jeremy Ingpen

Translators of Vladimir Solovyev and Sergii Bulgakov face a series of choices in glossing the Russian word богочеловечество (bogochelovechestvo) or the French divino-humanité. The early translators of these writers chose “Godmanhood,” and Professor Andrew Louth has argued in favor of this choice.

Jeremy Ingpen

Jeremy N. Ingpen’s translations include Olivier Clément, Transfiguring Time (New City Press, 2019), Michel Evdokimov, Two Martyrs in a Godless World (New City Press, 2021), and Olivier Clément, Dialogues with Patriarch Athenagoras (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2022). He has also translated poems by Anna Akhmatova and Rainer Maria Rilke. He is currently a post-career doctoral candidate at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, studying the work of Olivier Clément, with the working title “The Face is the Entry to the Kingdom.”

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