The Burning Bush - On the Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God

Informationen zum Autor Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944), a luminary of twentieth-century theology, was a Russian Orthodox priest, public intellectual, and ecumenist.Roberto J. De La Noval teaches theology at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to translating Russian religious texts, he writes on theology and culture for journals of public thought. Klappentext Translated by Thomas Allan Smith In The Burning Bush -- the first component of his "minor theological trilogy" -- the great Russian Orthodox theologian Sergius Bulgakov explores the place of Mary the Mother of God in Orthodox theology and devotional practice, in the process critiquing certain aspects of Roman Catholic Mariology. Drawing heavily on the Orthodox Church's liturgical texts and iconography and on his own developing Sophiology, Bulgakov offers a rich explanation of the unique, mysterious role played by the Mother of God as the realization of the human capacity for divinization.

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• Authors: Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov, Sergius Bulgakov, Sergius/ Smith Bulgakov
• Assisted by: Thomas Allan Smith (Translation)
• Publisher: Eerdmans wm b pub
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2008
• EAN: 9780802845740
• ISBN: 978-0-8028-4574-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity