Lev Zander has written of Sergius Bulgakov: 'His thought is like a ray of light proceeding from a single point but extending to every domain of life. It shows a true path to the reinstatement in mankind of "the mind of Christ".'
Bulgakov was born in 1871, the son of a Russian priest. Disillusioned after the abortive 1905 revolution, he slowly retraced his steps to the Church, first as layman, subsequently as priest. After expulsion from Russia in 1923, he became Dean of the Orthodox Theological Academy in Paris. He was a warm but critical supporter of the Ecumenical Movement, through which his personality and intellectual power became widely known in Western Europe and America. He died in 1944. This anthology has been compiled by James Pain and Nicolas Zernov from Bulgakov's many books and articles. It is the first time such a comprehensive selection of his writings has been made avaliable in English.