The Burning Bush and Bulgakov’s Kataphatic Theology
M. S. Compton (all rights reserved)
Rowan Williams has observed that, in The Unfading Light, Bulgakov expounds upon the Palamite doctrine, and finds “not only the foundation of the theology of negation…but also a vision of the transfiguration of the cosmos by the penetration of divine energy.” (1) Although Wisdom-Sophia is “not God” (i.e., a 4th hypostasis,) she is “the first principle of the new created plurality of hypostases…human and angelic…existing in sophianic relation to the divine.” (2) Bulgakov, in essence, says: “The mystery of the world is this femininity.” (3) Bulgakov’s Mariology, wherein the sacred feminine dimension of his theology is perhaps most explicit, is outlined in the second book of his first sophiological trilogy, The Burning Bush, the English translation of which will be available November, 2008 by Eerdmans. Continue reading ‘Bulgakov Blog Conference, Day 6′
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