A couple of other videos we mention in the video. Catherine Pickstock on "What is Truth" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_KmnyQbg9aM.html and John Milbank's intro lecture to Bulgakov ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CxhekTit-cc.html
Hi Eric, Michael Martin's The Heavenly Kingdom (An Anthology of Primary Sources, Poetry & Critical Essays on Sophiology) may be helpful to read. I got mine via Amazon UK
Again, I thank you both for letting us explore with you the reality of death (and Bulgakov's wisdom concerning it) - which our culture seeks to obscure if not deny... I am personally preoccupied with coming to know experientially the reality and meaning of **our** dying in Christ's death: when He died we all died (2 Cor.5). The existential question is how do we draw upon this ontological reality? I intuit that a/the "key" is "Gelassenheit" - a joyful surrender or resignation - as it is practiced and cultivated through what might be best called 'contemplative prayer', which I believe lies at the core of Paul's most mystical statement: "And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate [as in a mirror] the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." This, coupled with the great mystery that it was especially on the cross that He revealed His Glory that we are to "gaze" upon, is the deep calling to deep within my very being, which mysteriously and mystically mirrors His Being... So, He is not only "with" us in our dying - but His death IS our death... and, we must never forget and lose sight of this: that death is a doorway into resurrection life, released with its radically transforming power into our lives and the lives of those around us...
I am looking to have a dialogue about Bulgakov, I am an avid reader of Fr.John Behr and Karl Barth, would Grail Country be willing to do a zoom call? I'll send an email.
