Sergii Bulgakov’s Linguistic Trinity
As the work of Sergii Bulgakov has become more widely available in English, his Trinitarian theology has become a subject of particular interest. This article analyses his less well-known works on the Trinity from the 1920s, arguing that the understanding of Trinitarian doctrine developed there is i...
| Published in: | Modern theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2021
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Modern theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Pages: 888-912 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bulgakov, Sergii N. 1871-1944
/ Trinity
/ Language theory
/ Transcendence
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDF Orthodox Church NBC Doctrine of God VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | As the work of Sergii Bulgakov has become more widely available in English, his Trinitarian theology has become a subject of particular interest. This article analyses his less well-known works on the Trinity from the 1920s, arguing that the understanding of Trinitarian doctrine developed there is inseparable from Bulgakov’s analyses of language and consciousness. By analysing Bulgakov’s approach to the Trinity via language, this article will draw particular attention to his negotiation of the notion of divine transcendence. We will see that Bulgakov’s writings on the Trinity display, contrary to received opinion, a deep apophatic tendency, or recognition of divine transcendence. But we will also see that his more thoroughly linguistic approach to the Trinity, in which divine transcendence flows from what it means for God to be Love, contradicts his explicit discussion of divine transcendence elsewhere as a transcendence of the Father alone. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12708 |