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Increasingly convinced that early (and residual) resistance to Bulgakov's though, esp critiques around his sophiology/Mariology, reveals a latent sexism which fears the power of the 'feminine' which Bulgakov observes in the divine essence and in the Mother of God.
Regardless of how we want to account for Bulgakov's own complicated and oft disturbing comments on sexual difference, one cannot responsibly read his works without acknowledging his efforts to identify hypermasculinity in phil/theo with Lucifer and use the Theotokos to usurp it.
"The intensity of the solely male principle in the life of the spirit leads to a revolt against God which has its archetype in the uprising of the Daystar, who renounced the feminine...wanted to have everything from himself, in a masculine way, and became the devil." (UL)
"Having given Her Son to humankind, the Most Pure Mother of God is, of course, both the hypostatic body of Christ par excellence and the temple of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit-Bearer. This place at the *head of the Church* belongs to Her...
...not only after the universal resurrection, from the very beginning to the latter, but even, so to speak, before the universal resurrection." (BotL)
