{"id":58381,"date":"2021-12-22T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=58381"},"modified":"2021-12-26T19:02:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T01:02:53","slug":"book-review-the-eucharistic-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/22\/book-review-the-eucharistic-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: <i>The Eucharistic Sacrifice<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Eucharistic Sacrifice<br \/>\n<\/em>By Sergius Bulgakov<br \/>\nTranslated by Mark Roosien<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-58382 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/9780268201418.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/9780268201418.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/9780268201418-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/9780268201418-267x400.jpeg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is but the latest translation of the writings of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944) to appear and it is a most welcome one. Mark Roosien has produced a clear, beautiful translation. His discerning scholarship is evident in the fine introduction in which he deftly handles a number of things. He introduces Bulgakov, his person, life and work. Further, he shows how central the Eucharist was in Bulgakov\u2019s vision, not only as a theologian but as a priest. One only has to read his student Fr. Alexander Schmemann\u2019s memoir of his teacher to appreciate the pastoral and liturgical radiance of Fr. Sergius evident to those around him. Roosien also locates this particular essay from 1939-40 in the context of Bulgakov\u2019s other writings on the Eucharist, in particular \u201cThe Eucharistic Dogma,\u201d (1930) and \u201cThe Holy Grail,\u201d (1932) and \u201cThe Eucharist and the Social Problems of Modern Society,\u201d (1933) for <a href=\"https:\/\/fsass.org\/publications\/\"><em>T<\/em><em>he Journal of the Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius. <\/em><\/a>After arguing for the unity still present among the divided churches, Bulgakov proposed a sharing of the Eucharist by those in the Fellowship, with the blessing of their bishops and after a common confession. This was never accomplished, but remains a singular effort to put ecumenical prayer, study, conversation and fellowship into action by restoring the eucharistic communion that has been broken.<\/p>\n<p>David Bentley Hart, and along with him, John Milbank, Antoine Arjakovsky, Rowan Williams and Brandon Gallaher, among others, are clear that Bulgakov is not just the greatest Eastern Church theologian of the modern era. They go further in ranking him among the most notable across the churches. The more that translations allow access to Bulgakov\u2019s body of work, the more there is basis for such claims. This essay, the longest of Bulgakov\u2019s writings specifically on the Eucharist, bears this out. As Roosien puts it, Bulgakov argues that the Eucharistic sacrifice is not \u201canother\u201d sacrifice offered in addition to or in remembrance of the cross. Rather, it is an \u201ceschatological manifestation of the primordial sacrifice that lies behind Golgotha: the self-giving love of God in the Trinity,\u201d a celebration of the <em>k\u00e9n\u014dsis<\/em> that goes on in eternity. (ix)<\/p>\n<p>Bulgakov in this essay shares his distinctive understanding, namely that the Eucharist brings heaven and earth together. The Eucharist comprises the whole of God\u2019s sacrifice for the life of the world: the <em>k<\/em><em>\u00e9n<\/em><em>\u014dsis<\/em> within the Trinity, then God\u2019s self-limiting sacrifice in creation and finally, the sacrifice of Christ\u2019s life, death and resurrection. The Last Supper Eucharist, accomplished before the death on the cross, reveals the sacrifice is transhistorical and supratemporal, as Roosien emphasizes. It is always the enacting of the saving works of Christ, the love of God and the presence of the Spirit in the shared bread and cup. The sacrifice of God\u2019s self-emptying love will never end.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgakov tracks this by examining sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and beyond, in other ancient religions. The inspection of the Old Testament sacrifices as compared to those of other traditions is meticulous and insightful. Then his focus shifts to what remembrance or <em>an<\/em><em>\u00e1mn<\/em><em>\u0113sis<\/em> means, namely and not in our ordinary vision, a recalling of the past, the present as well as the future. The text of the liturgy in the Eastern Church recalls also the \u201csecond glorious coming\u201d yet to occur. Though Christ\u2019s sacrifice takes place in historical time, it transcends time, and is a powerful event now and in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgakov also analyzes the high priesthood of Christ, drawing on the letter to the Hebrews. In two chapters he further considers the change of the bread and wine, putting forward his own vision of God\u2019s embodiment. The Eucharist thus is a way in which the Council of Chalcedon\u2019s view of Christ\u2019s divine and human natures finds vivid expression. In another two chapters, Bulgakov looks at how the divine and human are bridged in various aspects of the eucharistic sacrifice. The material bread and wine remain, though having become the body and blood of Christ. In eating and drinking, we humans are touched, permeated by the divine. One could almost say there is an ongoing extension of the Incarnation. The communion with Christ takes place in each of us as individuals but most importantly as members of the body of Christ, the Church. Thus the Eucharist is constantly making the Church; as the Church, God\u2019s people make the Eucharist.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgakov considers the atoning sacrifice, in which Christ\u2019s death and resurrection for all extends to all. Here his assent to the restoration of all, <em>apokat<\/em><em>\u00e1stasis<\/em>, is the consequence of all the forms of God\u2019s self-emptying love, which the Eucharist contains. In the liturgy, both in the preparation and in the anaphora or eucharistic prayer, there is commemoration of those who have died and the living, those name but all others as well.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly he brings the Mother of God, the Virgin Mary into connection with the Eucharist. She is named in the eucharistic prayer universally, and this witnesses how Christ came to be born from her own body. When the Lord says \u201cthis is my body\u2026my blood,\u201d it is the body that came from Mary. She is always named in the liturgy but at the end of prayers of intercession, litanies, for with all the angels and saints she is part of God\u2019s plan of saving all.<\/p>\n<p>Roosien recalls how in St. Sergius Theological Institute there emerged a procession of theologians and priests for whom the Eucharist was central: Fr. Bulgakov, Fr. Kyprian Kern, Fr. Nicholas Afanasiev. These and others formed the vision of Fr. Schmemann, who was a student of all three and who went on to shape his own distinctive liturgical theology.\u00a0 It is no coincidence that one of his last books, published posthumously, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eucharist-Sacrament-Kingdom-Alexander-Schmemann\/dp\/0881410187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is most significant that with this publication we now have all three of Bulgakov\u2019s studies of the Eucharist available in translation. We should also look forward to more of Mark Roosien\u2019s own work being published in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Sergius Bulgakov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/undpress.nd.edu\/9780268201418\/the-eucharistic-sacrifice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Eucharistic Sacrifice<\/em><\/a>. Translated by Mark Roosien. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. 140 pages. $42.00. ISBN: 9780268201418.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>REVIEWER: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/weissman.baruch.cuny.edu\/weissman-academic-departments\/the-department-of-sociology-and-anthropology\/the-department-of-sociology-and-anthropology-faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Plekon<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor Emeritus, The City University of New York\u2013Baruch College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Plekon reviews Mark Roosien&#8217;s new translation of Sergius Bulgakov, <i>The Eucharistic Sacrifice<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":58382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3117,3297,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scholarship-new-ws","category-brief-book-review","category-mass","category-recently-published-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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