Sergei Bulgakov

Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov (, ; – 13 July 1944) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist. Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart has named Bulgakov "the greatest systematic theologian of the twentieth century." Father Sergei Bulgakov also served as a spiritual father and confessor to Mother Maria Skobtsova (who was canonized a saint by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 16 January 2004).

Sergei Bulgakov is best known for his development of a theological system centered on Sophia, the Wisdom of God. His ideas were accused of diverging from Orthodox doctrine by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and elements of the Moscow Patriarchate, amid both theological and political tensions. A 1935–36 investigation by theologians at the St. Sergius Institute, convened by Metropolitan Eulogius Georgiyevsky, concluded that Bulgakov’s teachings did not constitute heresy. Provided by Wikipedia