Abstract
This chapter maintains that Sergii Bulgakov shaped twentieth-century percep-tions of deification in the West through a frequently overlooked route, namely Myrrha Lot-Borodine’s seminal studies of the doctrine published in 1932 and 1933 in the Revue de l’histoire des religions.1 At a time when deification was primarily known in the West through Adolf Harnack’s withering denuncia-tion of the doctrine, and at a moment when many Russian theologians’ works remained untranslated, Myrrha Lot-Borodine’s groundbreaking articles pre-sented the first sustained Orthodox defense of deification widely accessible to Western readers. This paper maintains, however, that in key regards Lot-Boro-dine’s studies in fact functioned as a conduit through which Bulgakov’s version of the doctrine was made known in the West, even though Bulgakov’s influence on Lot-Borodine has often gone unrecognized.