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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Heath, Joshua (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2021
In: Modern theology
Jahr: 2021, Band: 37, Heft: 4, Seiten: 888-912
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Bulgakov, Sergej Nikolaevič 1871-1944 / Trinität / Sprachtheorie / Transzendenz
IxTheo Notationen:KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit
KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit
KDF Orthodoxe Kirche
NBC Gotteslehre
VA Philosophie
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1468-0025
Enthält:Enthalten in: Modern theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/moth.12708