The Bride of the Lamb

by Bulgakov, Sergius

• ISBN13: 9780802839152
• ISBN10: 0802839150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Author Biography

Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944), the twentieth century's leading Orthodox theologian, left the Soviet Union in 1923 and spent the rest of his academic career as dean and professor of dogmatic theology at Saint Sergius Theological Institute in Paris

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	ix
To the Reader	xvii
SECTION I The Creator and Creation
The Creation of the World ``Out of Nothing''	3	(122)
Cosmism	3	(1)
Dualism	4	(3)
The Sophianicity of the World	7	(72)
Platonism	8	(1)
Aristotelianism	9	(6)
Patristics	15	(4)
Western Theology (Thomas Aquinas)	19	(14)
``Creation Out of Nothing''	33	(23)
The Eternity of Creation and the Temporality of Its Being	56	(23)
The World Soul and Its Hypostases	79	(24)
The Eternity and Temporality of Man	103	(22)
Creaturely Freedom	125	(22)
Evil	147	(46)
Creaturely Limitedness and Imperfection	147	(3)
Creaturely Freedom as the Possibility of Good and of Evil	150	(14)
Original Sin	164	(29)
God and Creaturely Freedom	193	(60)
Divine Providence with Regard to the World	193	(8)
Divine Providence with Regard to Man	201	(3)
Divine Causality and Creaturely Freedom	204	(8)
The Problem of Predestination	212	(8)
God and Creaturely Freedom	220	(33)
SECTION II The Church, History, and the Afterlife
The Church	253	(62)
The Essence of the Church	253	(15)
The Church as a Sacramental and Hierarchical Organization	268	(22)
The Limits of Sacramentalism	290	(4)
Grace	294	(21)
History	315	(34)
Death and the State After Death	349	(30)
SECTION III Eschatology
Parousia, Resurrection, and the City of God	379	(148)
Introductory Comments	379	(3)
The End of This Age	382	(5)
The Parousia	387	(30)
The Transfiguration of the World	417	(12)
The Universal Resurrection	429	(25)
Judgment and Separation	454	(12)
The Eternal in the Temporal (On the Eternity of Bliss and Torments)	466	(53)
The City of God	519	(8)
Index	527