Our February Communio Study Circle reading has been decided!
We will be reading through Chapter Two of Sophia, The Wisdom of God: An Outline of Sophiology by Sergei Bulgakov.
Where to buy the book:
We will meet in person and online on Saturday, February 15 at 4 pm US Central Time.
From the back of the book:
HERE IS a great hunger to recover the feminine aspect of divinity. But much searching has left Christians disappointed and seeking for the “Goddess” elsewhere. In this brave theological work, Bulgakov shows how the divine Sophia, in whom all things are created, is present in the Holy Trinity itself and how, as the “creaturely Sophia she works together with her divine counterpart in the work of the Holy Spirit for the redemption of the world.
SERGEI BULGAKOV (1879-1944) was a Russian Orthodox theologian who strove to bring Sophia into Christian teaching. Coming at the end of a line of Russian Sophiologists-such as Vladimir Solovyor and Pavel Florensky-Bulgakov sought to provide a theological basis for the understanding of Sophia. For Bulgakov, Sophia is the love of Love. Receiving all, Sophia is all, and so is at once the beauty of the world, the boundary between the Creator and the creation, and the very ground of creation itself.
BULGAKOV died on July 12, 1944. At his funeral, the Metropolitan Eulogius addressed him: “Dear Father Sergei, you were a Christian sage, a teacher of the Church in the purest and most lofty sense. You were enlightened by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Understanding, the Comforter to whom you dedicated your scholarly life….”