Jacob's Ladder: On Angels

Sergius Bulgakov

Eerdmans Publishing Company, Nov 16, 2010 - Religion - 184 pages

Few of Sergius Bulgakov s professional writings achieve the lyrical heights of Jacob s Ladder. In it he discusses the doctrine of angels and their importance for contemporary humanity. He includes reflections on the meaning of love, the sexes, death, and the Christian hope of resurrection, meditating on the Wisdom of God in the creation.

This work completes the word picture of divinized and Sophianic creation begun in The Burning Bush and The Friend of the Bridegroom, which together constitute what scholars call Bulgakov s major, or first, trilogy.

About the author

Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944), the twentieth century's leading Orthodox theologian, left the Soviet Union in 1923 and spent the rest of his academic career as dean and professor of dogmatic theology at Saint Sergius Theological Institute in Paris. His major works include The Philosophy of Economy, The Unfading Light, The Friend of the Bridegroom, The Burning Bush, The Lamb of God, and The Comforter.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Jacob's Ladder: On Angels
• Author: Sergius Bulgakov
• Translated by: Thomas Allan Smith
• Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010
• ISBN: 080286516X, 9780802865168
• Length: 184 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / Angelology & Demonology