Sophiology
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Sophiology is a controversial school of thought in the Russian Orthodox tradition of Eastern Orthodox Christianity that holds that Divine Wisdom is to be identified with God's essence, and that this D
Icon, Theotokos as Sophia, the Holy Wisdom, Kiev (1812)
Sergei Bulgakov
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Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist. Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart has named Bulgakov "the greatest systematic theologian of the tw
Sophiology
…as an explicit theological doctrine was first formulated during the 1890s to 1910s by Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), Pavel Florensky (1882–1937) and Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944). For Bulgakov, the Theotokos was the world soul and the "pneumatophoric hypostasis", a Bulgakov neologism. In 1935, parts of Sergei Bulgakov's…
Bulgakov in the 1920s
1907 caricature of Bulgakov as a member of the State Duma
Mikhail Nesterov's Philosophers (1917), Pavel Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov (right)
Bulgakov (representing the Tolstoyans), delivering a eulogy at the funerals of anarchist Peter Kropotkin (collections of L'Éphéméride anarchiste)