1st Edition

The Mother of God in the Theology of Sergius Bulgakov The Soul Of The World

By Walter Nunzio Sisto Copyright 2018
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the Mariology of one of the most unique and fascinating thinkers in the Russian Orthodox tradition, Father Sergius Bulgakov. Bulgakov develops the Russian sophianic mariological tradition initiated by Vladimir Solo’ev and argues that Mary is the "soul of the world" or the pneumatological hypostasis. Mary is the first and greatest disciple to be adopted by the Holy Spirit. By... Read more

Introduction  1 The Formative Events  2 Bulgakov’s Method and Sources  3 Russian Mariology and Bulgakov  4 Theological Anthropology and Mary  5 Bulgakov’s Mariology  6 Critics and the Reception of Bulgakov’s Mariology  Conclusion

Biography

Walter Nunzio Sisto is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at D’Youville College. His research interest is the application of Sergius Bulgakov’s theology to contemporary issues. To this end he has published a variety of articles on Sergius Bulgakov’s Sophiology in journals such as Logos, Marian Studies, and Irish Theological Quarterly. He has also published the book, Death & the World Religions (Kendall Hunt, 2015) that was inspired by Bulgakov’s Sophiology of death.