Italian reception of Russian philosophy. Giuseppe Lo Verde on archpriest Serge Bulgakov’s Trinitarian Ontology

Abstract

This paper introduces Russian readers and scholars to a review article by the Italian Law scholar Giuseppe lo Verde, titled “The Philosophy of the Trinity by Serge Bulgakov” (La filosofia della Trinità di S. Bulgakow). Lo Verde discusses a very complex and important topic in Bulgakov’s thought - his view of Trinitarian Ontology. If by 1938 the philosophy of Arch. S. Bulgakov, in spite of all his authority, was actually not understood by his Russian contemporaries, because of the so called “controversy about Sophia” (Sophiology), then for European reader the Trinitarian Ontology of Russian philosopher turned out to prove relevant. Bulgakov is the only Russian thinker discussed in a separate article in an Italian Philosophical publication of a long-standing tradition and broad international renown.