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“Transcende te ipsum”: Faith, Prayer and Name-Worship in Bulgakov’s Unfading Light
P. 77–89.
Ilin I.
Bulgakov begins his Unfading Light with the critique of Western “immanentism” (or onto-theology, to use Heideggerian-Kantian neologism) that compromises Divine transcendence both in ontological (pantheism) and epistemological (full intelligibility of God) dimensions. Bulgakov thus sees his task as reaffirming both ontological (Sophia) and epistemological (faith) transcendence of God in the light of Divine revelation. It’s the latter line of thought that will be analyzed in my paper. It shows that faith and reason in Bulgakov are not contradictory but rather interrelated, and examines Bulgakov’s “reaffirming” analysis of faith with its constitutive elements—religious experience, prayer, name-worship, and self-transcendence.
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Muenster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2024.