“All that is temporary is an alloy of Nothing and Eternity”: once again about the trinitarian ontology of prof. archp. Sergius Bulgakov (to the 150th anniversary of his birth)
The article will focus on the version of the Trinitarian Ontology by Professor Archpriest Sergius Nikolaevich Bulgakov, as propounded in the previously unpublished sections of the “Chapters on the Trinity”. The text is a draft manuscript with many revisions, and it dates from 1925. This dating allows us to correlate the original edition of the text of the “Chapters…” with the article “Hypostasis and Hypostaticity”. In the “Chapters” there is an extension and continuation of the concept that was set out in the “Hypostasis…” The “missed Chapters” contain Bulgakov’s Trinitarian and Sophiological models, transitional from “Hypostasis and Hypostaticity” to those ontological models that are known to us from the “Lamb of God”. Bulgakov rejects the concept of “hypostaticity” as “the ability to give oneself” in favour of the concept of Sophia-unum, and from the Palamite in uence in favour of the Triadology of St. Athanasius the Great, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Damascene, etc. Separate sections of the “missed Chapters” are associated with the Philosophy of Sexuality and the Philosophy of Language.