The Sophiology of Father Sergius Bulgakov and the Living Tradition

by Andrew Louth

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.

Andrew Louth

Professor emeritus of patristic and Byzantine studies at Durham University and honorary fellow of the St Irenaeus Orthodox Institute at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He is an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church. His books include monographs on Dionysios the Areopagite (1989), Maximos the Confessor (1996), and John Damascene (2002), and more recently Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology (2013) and Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present (2015).

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