Like the fallen goddesses previously mentioned this is also not an uncommon motif in ancient religionswith the soul represented as a female protagonist.

Christian meaning of sophia. The Myth of the Divine Sophia In the Gnostic myth of how the world works Sophia the feminine personification of wisdom lives happily with spirits of light especially her twin brother in the unified limitless potential of her Fathers radiance created by the twin powers of Depth and Silence. In most if not all versions of the gnostic myth Sophia brings about an instability in the Pleroma in turn bringing about the creation of materiality. She has been revered as the Wise Bride of Solomon by Jews as the Queen of Wisdom and War Athena by Greeks and as the Holy Spirit of Wisdom by Christians.

Hagia Sophia Turkish Ayasofya Latin Sancta Sophia also called Church of the Holy Wisdom or Church of the Divine Wisdom an important Byzantine structure in Istanbul and one of the worlds great monuments. 4678sophía is the root of the English terms sophistication and philosophy literally respectively the art of using wisdom affection for wisdom. Sophia in all things is the Divine Life reflected in them.

Sophia is Gift is Spirit Donum Dei. For wisdom is a complex biblical figure described variously as a divine attribute a distinct hypostasis of God a goddess-like co-partner with God and sometimes even as synonymous with God. Wisdom broad and full of intelligence.

His solution was the introduction of the Greek word Sophia or wisdom into corporate worship. She arises in the later texts of the Jewish tradition first simply as wisdom with a. She led them by a marvelous road.

Including both Christ and Sophia in the name Christ-Sophia restores the Divine Feminine in Christianity. The wisdom which belongs to men. SophiaSofia means wisdom in Greek.

Many early Christians viewed the Christ as both the Word Logos and Wisdom Sophia of God. Like the other aeons Sophia was the child of a male-female pair of aeons that had come before her who had given birth with the Fathers blessing. Sophia was one of the aeons divine entities who were descended from God the Father and who were roughly equivalent to angels.