Sergey Bulgakov Biography

Born: June 16 was born in the family of a rural priest. He studied at the Theological School and at the Oryol Theological Seminary, then in the Yelets classical gymnasium. In his youth he is fond of Marxism, met with K. Kautsky, A. Bebel, V. Adler, G. graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University. Having survived the master's exam, Bulgakov became a teacher of political economy in the Imperial Moscow Technical School.

In the same year, he was elected deputy of the II State Duma as a non -partisan "Christian socialist." The following years, the period of the greatest public, and journalistic, activity of the philosopher. He participates in many undertakings, marked by the religious and philosophical revival in the magazine "New Way" and "Questions of Life", the collection "Questions of Religion", "On Vladimir Solovyov", "On the religion of Leo Tolstoy", "Religion of the Philosophical Society of the Memory of Vladimir Solovyov" and the book publishes "The Way", where in-117.

In his work during this period, a transition from lectures and articles on the topics of religion and culture is made the most important of them were collected by him in the two -volume “Two Grads”, to original philosophical developments. In the monographs “Philosophy of the Economy” and mainly “The Light of the Neva”, he outlines the foundations of his own teaching, which goes in line with sophiology Vladimir Solovyov and Florensky, however, who has absorbed the noticeable influence of late Schelling, as well as a number of his own ideas, fed by the intuitions of Orthodox religiosity.

The process of gradual return to the church-legal worldview ends in the revolutionary years by the adoption of the priesthood with this completion of Bulgakov immediately begins to play a prominent role in church circles, actively participating in the work of the All-Russian Local Council of the Orthodox Church and closely cooperating with Patriarch Tikhon. Accepting unconditionally negatively of the October coup, Father Sergius quickly responded to him with dialogues “at the Feast of the Gods”, written in the style and spirit of “three conversations” by Vladimir Solovyov; The dialogs were included in the collective collection "from the depths"; 2nd ed.

During the Civil War, Father Sergius was in the Crimea and, being torn off both from the Jerely ministry and from socio-public activity, intensively worked in philosophy. In the then works written then "Philosophy of the name", ed. The latter has since been the main sphere of his work. Lenin lists of science and culture figures subject to expulsion abroad. Here in May, he moves to Paris in the year.

Soon, with the active participation of Bulgakov, a project arises and is successfully implemented by the creation of the Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris.

From his discovery in the city, under his leadership, the Sergievsky Compound, as they began to call a complex of institute buildings with a temple in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh, grew into the largest center of Orthodox spirituality and theological science in the foreign country. Pastorskaya, professorship and leading work at the institute - the core of all the activities of Father Sergius in the last twenty years of his life.

In the father of Sergius, cancer of the throat was discovered. He underwent the operation, lost the ability to speak, serve, give lectures. The World War Ice began to limit even more the sphere of his labors. However, until the last days of his life, in the difficult conditions of occupied Paris, he did not stop working on new works and perform worship. Detailed biography.