Unfading Light

by Bulgakov, Sergius; Smith, Thomas Allan

• ISBN13: 9780802867117
• ISBN10: 0802867111
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-12
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944) is widely regarded as the twentieth century's leading Orthodox theologian. His many other books include Icons and the Name of God, The Burning Bush, The Lamb of God, The Comforter, and The Bride of the Lamb. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Thomas Allan Smith is a fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, where he serves as registrar, and associate professor of Eastern Christian history and theology at University of St. Michael's College, Toronto.

Table of Contents

A Note from the Translator	p. x
Translator's Introduction: Bulgakov's Journey towards the Unfading Light	p. xx
From the Author	p. xxxvii
Introduction: The Nature of Religious Consciousness	p. 1
How Is Religion Possible?	p. 1
Transcendent and Immanent	p. 20
Faith and Feeling	p. 39
Religion and Ethics	p. 47
Faith and Dogma	p. 53
The Nature of Myth	p. 63
Religion and Philosophy ;	p. 79
Divine Nothing	p. 103
The Fundamental Antinomy of Religious Consciousness	p. 103
Negative (Apophatic) Theology	p. 111
Negative Theology in Plato and Aristotle	p. 111
Plotinus (Third Century A.D.)	p. 114
Philo of Alexandria (First Century)	p. 118
The Idea of Negative Theology in the Alexandrian School of Christian Theology (Third Century)	p. 119
Clement of Alexandria	p. 119
Origen	p. 120
Fathers of the Church: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, St. Gregory of Nyssa (Fourth Century)	p. 121
Areopagitica	p. 125
St. Maximus the Confessor (Seventh Century)	p. 129
St. John Damascene (Eighth Century)	p. 130
St. Gregory Palamas (Fourteenth Century)	p. 131
Johannes Scotus Eriugena (Ninth Century)	p. 134
Nicholas of Cusa (Fifteenth Century)	p. 137
Jewish Mysticism: Cabbala	p. 140
Negative Theology in German and English Mysticism	p. 143
"German Theologyö (Das Büchlein vom vollkommenen Leben von Deutschherr) ca. Fifteenth Century	p. 143
Meister Eckhart and His School (Tauler, Suso)	p. 143
Sebastian Frank (Sixteenth Century)	p. 146
Angelus Silesius (Seventeenth Century)	p. 147
Jacob Böhme (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)	p. 148
John Pordage (Seventeenth Century)	p. 149
Kant and Negative Theology	p. 150
Divine Nothing	p. 152
Johannes Scotus Eriugena	p. 165
Meister Eckhart	p. 167
Jacob Böhme	p. 170
The World	p. 181
The Creatureliness of the World	p. 181
Creation	p. 181
Creaturely Nothing	p. 186
The World as Theophany and Theogony	p. 195
Time and Eternity	p. 202
Freedom and Necessity	p. 207
The Sophianicity of the Creature	p. 214
Sophia	p. 214
What Is Matter?	p. 239
Matter and the Body	p. 250
The Nature of Evil	p. 266
The Human Being	p. 285
The First Adam	p. 285
The Image of God in the Human Being	p. 285
Sex in the Human Being	p. 294
Human and Angel	p. 311
The Likeness of God in the Human Being	p. 315
The Fall of Humankind	p. 318
Light in the Darkness	p. 326
The Old Testament and Paganism	p. 336
The Second Adam	p. 342
The Creation of the World and the Incarnation of God	p. 342
The Salvation of Fallen Humankind	p. 350
Human History	p. 359
Concrete Time	p. 359
Economy and Art	p. 363
Economy and Theurgy	p. 370
Art and Theurgy	p. 382
Power and Theocracy	p. 404
Society and Ecclesiality	p. 416
The End of History	p. 424
Completion	p. 427
Notes	p. 437
Index of Names	p. 505
Index of Scripture References	p. 509
Index of Liturgical Texts	p. 512
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