The Sophiology and Ecclesiology of Fr Sergius Bulgakov and Fr Pavel Florensky

Monday, 3 October

10.00 Opening and Greetings

Fr Georgy Kochetkov, Founder of St Philaret’s Institute, Editor-in-Chief of SFI Quarterly (Moscow)

Alexey Mazurov, Professor, Rector of St Philaret’s Institute (Moscow)

10.30 Plenary Session

1. Victor Troitsky (A.F. Losev’s House Research Library and Memorial Museum, Moscow)
   ‘We Are Where the Axis of Orthodoxy Is Today’ (Pavel Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov in May 1917)
2. David Gzgzyan (SFI, Moscow)
   Church-World and Church-Friendship in Fr Sergius Bulgakov and Fr Pavel Florensky’s Heritage
3. Alexander Kopirovsky (SFI, Moscow)
   ‘Church and Culture’ or ‘Church-Culture’? Fr Pavel Florensky and Fr Sergius Bulgakov on Relationship between Church and Culture
4. Andrey Rukavishnikov (Moscow State University)
   Fr Sergius Bulgakov on Specific Features of Idealistic Aestheticism

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Plenary Session

1. Antoine Arjakovsky (Collège des Bernardins, Paris)
   Sophiology and Personalism, Foundations of New Political Science in the 21st Century
2. Fr John A. Jillions (All Saints Church, Hartford, CT)
   Renouncing Bishop-worship and Embracing Generosity: Two Aspects of Fr Sergius Bulgakov's Kenotic Ecclesiology
3. Fr Maxim Mischenko (Smolensk Orthodox Seminary)
   Problems of Historic Approach to the Concept of Eucharistic Ecclesiology: a Look from a Different Jurisdiction
4. Nikolay Kliuev (SFI, Moscow)
   Fr Sergius Bulgakov’s Thought on Church Boundaries and Its Reception in Christian Theology

16.00 Tea Break

16.30 Round Table Discussion

18.30 Dinner

19.30 Presentation of Special Edition of SFI Quarterly on Contemporary Christian Anthropology

Moderator: Yulia Balakshina (SFI Academic Secretary, Professor of Gertsen Russian State Humanities University, St Petersburg, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of SFI Quarterly)

Tuesday, 4 October

10.00 Plenary Session

1. Alexander Volkov (SFI, Moscow)
   Call of ‘Levite’ Blood: Sergei Bulgakov’s Relationship with the Church before 1917
2. Dionysios Skliris (Hellenic Open University, Athens)
   Church as Image of the Trinity in the Thought of Fr Sergei Bulgakov
3. Olga Kuznetsova (SFI, Moscow)
   Basis for Church Unity According to Fr Sergius Bulgakov and Fr Nicholas Afanasiev
4. Yulia Antipina (SFI, St Peterburg Spiritual Academy)
   Molecularity and Sobornost on the Way to Church Unity: Fr Sergius Bulgakov’s Theological Polemics on Communion with Christians from Other Churches
5. Fr Stephan Lipke (St Thomas Institute, Moscow)
   Spirituality of Friendship and No Compulsion Discourse Theory in Ecclesiology of Medard Kehl (1942–2021)

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Plenary Session

1. Mikhail Kildyashov (Orenburg Orthodox Seminary, Russian Writers Union, Isborsk Club)
   ‘The Church Is Not a Party’: Fr Pavel Florensky’s Ecclesial Traditionalism
2. Dmitry Gasak (SFI, Moscow)
   Fr Pavel Florensky’s Views on the Orthodox Church and Belonging to It in His Criticism of Aleksei Khomyakov’s Ecclesiology
3. Victor Granovsky (SFI, Moscow)
   ‘At the Walls of Hersonissos’: Criticism of ‘Greek-Russian Ideology’
4. Ivan Ilyin (International Laboratory for the Research of Russian-European Intellectual Dialogue, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Freiburg University Theology School)
   Reception of Fr Sergius Bulgakov’s Ecclesiology in Contemporary Political Theology Projects

16.00 Tea Break

16.30 Round Table Discussion

18.30 Dinner

19.30 – Lecture: Creative Work of Sister Ioanna (Reitlinger) in the Context of ‘Christian Sophiology’ Concept of Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov (using the frescos of the Church of St John the Warrior in Meudon and the Chapel of St Basil the Great in London)

Lecturer: Maria Patrusheva, graphic artist, Senior Lecturer at Favorsky Institute of Graphic and Book Art and SFI, Moscow

Wednesday, 5 October

10.00 Plenary Session

1. Natalia Likvintseva (Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad, Moscow)
   Practical Ecclesiology: Fr Sergius Bulgakov’s Thought on the Church and Its Reflection in the Activities of ‘Pravoslavnoye Delo’ Social Mission Society
2. Deacon Georgy Safoklov (St Panteleimon Church in Cologne)
   Is Friendship between Church and State Possible? On the Relevance of Fr Pavel Florensky and Fr Sergius Bulgakov’s Ecclesiological Concepts in Post-Secular Era
3. Nikita Siundiukov (North-West Management Institute of Russian Academy of National Economy and Civil Service, St Petersburg)
   Bulgakov and Milbank: Towards a Genesis of Secularity
4. Margarita Shilkina (SFI, Moscow)
   Fr Sergius Bulgakov on Memory of the Church and Gathering of Divine Humanity

12.30 Lunch

15.00 Cultural Programme: visiting the Museum of Pavel Florensky in Moscow