Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sect. I. The Creator and Creation. 1. The Creation of the World "Out of Nothing" 1. Cosmism. 2. Dualism. 3. The Sophianicity of the World. 4. The World Soul and Its Hypostases. 5. The Eternity and Temporality of Man. 2. Creaturely Freedom. 3. Evil. 1. Creaturely Limitedness and Imperfection. 2. Creaturely Freedom as the Possibility of Good and of Evil. 3. Original Sin. 4. God and Creaturely Freedom. 1. Divine Providence with Regard to the World. 2. Divine Providence with Regard to Man. 3. Divine Causality and Creaturely Freedom. 4. The Problem of Predestination. 5. God and Creaturely Freedom -- Sect. II. The Church, History, and the Afterlife. 5. The Church. 1. The Essence of the Church. 2. The Church as a Sacramental and Hierarchical Organization. 3. The Limits of Sacramentalism. 4. Grace. 6. History. 7. Death and the State after Death -- Sect. III. Eschatology. 8. Parousia, Resurrection, and the City of God. 1. Introductory Comments. 2. The End of This Age. 3. The Parousia. 4. The Transfiguration of the World. 5. The Universal Resurrection. 6. Judgment and Separation. 7. The Eternal in the Temporal (On the Eternity of Bliss and Torments). 8. The City of God.

"Sergius Bulgakov is thought by many to be the twentieth century's foremost Russian Orthodox theologian. The Bride of the Lamb is widely regarded as Bulgakov's magnum opus and, even more, as one of the greatest works ever produced in the modern Orthodox tradition. This book is now available for the first time in English, complete with an introduction to Bulgakov and his theological context." "For readers new to Russian religious thought, The Bride of the Lamb presents a fresh and intriguing approach to Christian doctrine. Bulgakov examines issues of ecclesiology and eschatology from a sophiological perspective. This distinctive Russian approach, based on the doctrine of Sophia, the wisdom of God, sees the Creator and creation intimately linked as Divine-humanity. The Bride of the Lamb explores the nature of created beings, the relationship between God and the world, the role of the church, and such eschatological themes as the second coming of Jesus, resurrection and judgment, and the afterlife." "Rendered into superb English by translator Boris Jakim, The Bride of the Lamb will breathe new life into Western approaches to Christian doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.