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Call for Respondents - The 2008 Sergei Bulgakov Blog Conference

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on March 23, 2008
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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)

Call for Papers - Sergii Bulgakov Blog Conference, September 2008 - Updated

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on March 15, 2008
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BulgakovIn his aptly titled essay, “On the Holy Grail,” Sergei Bulgakov meditates on the meaning of the verse in John where Christ’s side is pierced with a spear and “blood and water flow out.” Bulgakov’s thesis is straightforward: It is not the legendary grail of Western mythos that is interesting or vital, but rather the fact that when Jesus spills his blood upon the earth, the earth is charged and changed and maintains the seeds of its own transfiguration even when Christ dies, descends, and ascends to heaven. Clearly, the church has always maintained that Christ is present in the Eucharist and in the Spirit which he bequeaths, but Bulgakov thinks that the fact that this presence resides also in the earth itself, which is the holy grail, needs to be thought about much more seriously. He argues that this seed of transfiguration is none other than the Heavenly Sophia getting to work in nature, achieving her destiny in her Creaturely Image. This destiny reaches its origin and goal in the perfect picture of creation which exists with God eternally (and which is the essence of God). In the West it is talked about as the goodness of nature beneath the bentness of man’s will.

Here at the Land of Unlikeness, we could think of no better way to break into Bulgakov’s Sophia thesis than to join forces with the rest of you and throw a Sergei Bulgakov Blog Conference to be held in September later this year. The details are still sketchy, but we already have a few participants and many others are pondering. More participation is welcome, both in the form of a 1500 word contribution or in the form of a response to a post. Please send your contribution ideas to editor at thelandofunlikeness.com, or simply reply to this thread. Stay tuned for more details in the very near future.

The (Tentative and Still Growing) Lineup

Matthew J. Aragon Bruce (Princeton Theological Seminary) - “The Preface on Apollinaris”
Ben Boswell (Catholic University of America)
David W. Congdon (The Fire and the Rose)
Cynthia Nielsen (Per Caritatem) - “An introduction to Bulgakov”
Halden Doerge (Inhabitatio Dei) - “Eucharist, Eschatology, and World in the Ecclesiology of Bulgakov”.
Respondent: Joshua Brockway (Catholic University of America)
Aron Dunlap (The Land of Unlikeness) - Sophiology
Maximus Daniel Greeson (Paideia) - “Vladimir Lossky’s Critique of Bulgakov’s Sophiology”
Dan McClain (The Land of Unlikeness)
Brendan Sammon (The Well at the World’s End)
Scott Sharman (University of Toronto-St. Michael’s College) - “Hypostatic Motherhood and the Mother of God”
Gregory Voiles (Catholic University of America) - “The Divine Humanity of the Church”