The bride of the Lamb / Sergius Bulgakov ; translated by Boris Jakim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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