I’d like to thank everyone who has offered to participate in the 2008 Bulgakov Blog Conference. We’ve had a ton of really positive response in the last week, and AD and I are really exciting about what we think is going to be a brilliant event due to the fantastic essays that we already have slated (see below). However, with so many papers, some dealing with similar topics, we’ve decided to go with a session format to accomodate two papers for each theme. It will probably go something like this: each day, two essays will be presented, followed at the end of the day with a response. This way, I think we will be cover a lot of ground quickly. Of course, we will most likely have some single paper sessions, which will proceed in the usual style.
What we really need now is for folks to sign up as respondents. Again, you’re welcome to shoot me an email, or just respond to this post. Please include your name as you’d like it to appear, the session you’d like to respond to, and whatever university or website you’d like your name linked to… woops, hanging infinitive… to which you’d like your name linked.
Our Current Session Roster
Introduction
Cynthia Nielsen (Per Caritatem) - “An introduction to Bulgakov”
Ecclesiology and Eucharist
Halden Doerge (Inhabitatio Dei) - “Eucharist, Eschatology, and World in the Ecclesiology of Bulgakov”.
Gregory Voiles (Catholic University of America) - “The Divine Humanity of the Church”
Respondent: Joshua Brockway (Catholic University of America)
Apollinaris
Matthew J. Aragon Bruce (Princeton Theological Seminary) - “The Preface on Apollinaris”
Henry Karlson (Vox Nova) - “Bulgakov and Apollinarius”
Sophiology
Aron Dunlap (The Land of Unlikeness) - Sophiology
Maximus Daniel Greeson (Paideia) - “Vladimir Lossky’s Critique of Bulgakov’s Sophiology”
J. David Belcher (La Perruque) - “The ‘Interpenetrability’ of Divine and Creaturely Sophia: Freedom and Synergeia in Bulgakov’s Sophiology”
Mariology
M. Sophia Compton (St. Paul’s School of Theology, Kansas City) - “The Burning Bush and Bulgakov’s Kataphatic Theology”
Scott Sharman (University of Toronto-St. Michael’s College) - “Hypostatic Motherhood and the Mother of God”
Pneumatology
David W. Congdon (The Fire and the Rose) - Pneumatology
Kyle Bennett (Fuller Seminary) - “The Coming of the Comforter: The Holy Spirit’s Role in the Parousia of Christ according to Sergius Bulgakov and Jurgen Moltmann”
Theurgy and Aesthetics
Joshua Delpech-Ramey (The Land of Unlikeness) - “Sophiology and Magic: Renaissance Precursors to Bulgakov”
Dan McClain (The Land of Unlikeness) - “Art & Politics”
Respondent: Janet Leslie Blumberg (Deep Grace of Theory)
Still to be boxed in by a theme.
Ben Boswell (Catholic University of America)
Brendan Sammon (The Well at the World’s End)
Looks fascinating! I look forward to reading.
Okay, guys. I’m arriving late at the party here, but I just don’t get it. What kind of “conference” is this? Is it “just” on line? If so, please sign me up as a respondent. I don’t know a thing about Bulgarov but I’ll read the Sophia book and it even looks like my current work would resonant with what you all on working on (how strange — great minds must think alike….)!
So, for all of your non-blog-literate readers (if there are any of them out there besides me), please explain how this conference works, okay?
Janet,
Glad you’re on board. great minds do think alike, as long as they’re thinking like me! Basically, the conference will proceed like a regular conference: I’ll post all the papers in whichever sessions is scheduled for the day, and then the next day or later than day, I’ll post the response. Then people will be free to comment however and upon whatever they like. We’ll try to keep the papers to a manageable size so that they won’t take forever to read. If you want to see one that just ended, go to fireandrose.blogspot.com - there you’ll find the recently completed von Balthasar blog conference. It went well. I submitted a short paper and had a nice response, although not much discussion. Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep a healthy discussion going on this one since we have so many people involved.
Which session would you like to respond to?
Well, since I’m a Renaissance scholar, how about I do the Theurgy and Aesthetics session that you and Josh are offering? Unless you’ve got another Renaissance person in mind or something. I’m quite flexible.