SophiaSofia means wisdom in Greek.

Christian meaning of sophia. 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. F ew recent controversies have been as explosive as the one raging around the invocation of Sophia in worship especially at the ecumenical Re. The name Sophia is a baby girl name.

As far as I know Sophia is not a person or angel in the Bible. Like the fallen goddesses previously mentioned this is also not an uncommon motif in ancient religionswith the soul represented as a female protagonist. In Gnostic tradition the term Sophia Greek for wisdom refers to the final and lowest emanation of God.

Wisdom insight skill human or divine intelligence. Sophia is the Greek name for the feminine figure of divine Wisdom in ancient Judaism. Bible verses about Sophia.

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. Including both Christ and Sophia in the name Christ-Sophia restores the Divine Feminine in Christianity. Saphēs clear wisdomproperly clarity.

The baby name Sophia originated as an Biblical name. Sophia is Gift is Spirit Donum Dei. It was built as a Christian church in the 6th century ce 532537 under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.

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. 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. In Biblical the name Sophia means- wisdom.