Relics and Miracles

<DIV>Boris Jakim here presents two major theological essays by Russian Orthodox theologian Sergius Bulgakov in English translation for the first time.<br><br>On Holy Relics a 1918 response to Bolshevik desecration of the relics of Russian saints develops a comprehensive theology of holy relics connecting them with the Incarnation and showing their place in sacramental theology. The second essay On the Gospel Miracles written in 1932 presents a Christological doctrine of miracles focusing on how human activity relates to the works of Christ.<br><br>Both essays are suffused with Bulgakov's faith in Christian resurrection - and with his signature religious materialism in which the corporeal is illuminated by the spiritual and the earthly is transfigured into the heavenly.</DIV>