4678sophía is the root of the English terms sophistication and philosophy literally respectively the art of using wisdom affection for wisdom.

Christian meaning of sophia. Bible verses about Sophia. In Gnostic tradition the term Sophia Greek for wisdom refers to the final and lowest emanation of God. She is God-given and God Himself as Gift.

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king behold wise men from the east came to Jerusalem saying Where is he who has been born king of the Jews. Wisdom insight skill human or divine intelligence. 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.

More than that Sophia is the Wisdom of Deity. This allowed for a feminine goddess named Sophia to be worshiped. It was built as a Christian church in the 6th century ce 532537 under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.

As far as I know Sophia is not a person or angel in the Bible. Sophia in all things is the Divine Life reflected in them. Like the fallen goddesses previously mentioned this is also not an uncommon motif in ancient religionswith the soul represented as a female protagonist.

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 is the divinity that is present in all creation the sacred energy that ensouls every created thing. The varied knowledge of things human and divine acquired by acuteness and experience and summed up.

Where the Bible talks about sophia it is talking about Gods wisdom and its generally translated like any other Greek word. 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. Including both Christ and Sophia in the name Christ-Sophia restores the Divine Feminine in Christianity.