%0 Journal Article
%T Reimaging Aesthetics: Sergius Bulgakov on Seeing the Wisdom of Creation
%A Brandon L. Morgan
%J Irish Theological Quarterly
%@ 1752-4989
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0021140018757885
%X In this essay I resource the philosophy and theology of Sergius Bulgokov, particularly his understanding of divine and human imaging, as a way of mapping human comportment towards the non-human material world in aesthetic terms. By comparing the development of his account of human action from his early Philosophy of Economy and his later dogmatic theology, I seek to render less disconcerting an ambiguity in Bulgakov¡¯s work regarding human activity toward nature by contextualizing his early political philosophy within his later dogmatics. I argue that his later Trinitarian and Christological context more aptly suggests ways of viewing human action toward nature as aesthetic action animated by the perception of divinely created beauty. I then turn to Bulgakov¡¯s views on iconographic art in order to show some theologically informed constraints and limits to aesthetic judgment and human creativity in the practice of iconographic writing that accord with Bulgakov¡¯s broader theological anthropology
%K aesthetics
%K Bulgakov
%K creation
%K Divine Sophia
%K images
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021140018757885