Sergius Bulgakov in Exile
In the course of two theological trilogies, Bulgakov expounds his sophiological worldview governed by one central theological intuition concerning the necessary correlativity of the divine and human worlds, Divine Sophia (Wisdom) superabounding in creatural Sophia essentially orientated to the glorification of the Creator. Undergirding all his thought is an acute intuition of the self-presence of the Absolute, Transcendent to all creatural being, the very fact of a ‘trans’ a ‘beyond’ necessarily entailing relation, ultimately rendering the Absolute a Being-for-us, love and the Godhead being at one. With the kenosis of the Divinity in the Incarnation one grasps how the apotheosis of humanity becomes possible, human being bearing the ‘cryptogram of Divinity’. Humanity’s full realization is at one with the Church, nothing human being alien to the Church at her core, the essential goodness of creation bespeaking the final transformation of all in the loving embrace of an All-Provident Creator.