Holy Wisdom

Holy Wisdom, Ἁγία Σοφία also called Divine Wisdom (Greek:“Hagia Sophia”, Sancta Sophia in Latin) is the theological idea that in God alone is perfect Wisdom to be found. The word Sophia, "wisdom," is encountered in the sacred books both the Old Testament (in the Greek translation) and of the New Testament. In the New Testament Sacred Scripture it is used in three meanings:

1. In the usual broad meaning of wisdom, understanding: "Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and grace" (Luke 2:52); "But wisdom is justified of all her children" (Luke 7:35).
2. In the meaning of the wise economy of God expressed in the creation of the world, in His Providence over the world, and in the salvation of the world from sin: "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?" (Romans 11:33-34). "We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory" (1 Cor. 2:7).
3. In relation to the Son of God as the Hypostatical Wisdom of God: "But we preach Christ crucified ... Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God" (1 Cor. 1:23-24); "Who of God is made unto us wisdom" (1 Cor. 1:30).

See also

• Hagia Sophia
• Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod
• Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev
• God
• Christ
• Jesus
• Trinity
• Virgin Mary
• God the Father
• Revelation
• Phronesis
• Theosophy
• Sophia_(Gnosticism)
• Sophiology
• Prevenient Grace
• Pentacost

External links

Icons

• http://www.trinitystores.com/?detail=618&artist=11
• http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/andre/images/Hagia_Sophia.jpg
• http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=L887
• http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/andre/aquinas.html
• Sophia - Divins Wisdom by Eileen McGuckin, e_icon72
• Sophia - Divine Wisdom by Eileen McGuckin, e_icon53

Text

• http://www.rutgerschurch.com/Sermons/sermon060604.html
• http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/readings/dogmas/wisdom.shtml
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/procop-deaed1.html
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409a.htm
• http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-67478
• http://www.passtheword.org/Francis-Lee/lee-wisdom.htm
• http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/ga87apr27.htm
• http://kwakersaur.blogspot.com/2004/10/holy-wisdom.html
• http://www.passtheword.org/SHAKER-MANUSCRIPTS/Holy-Wisdom/wisdm2x.htm
• http://www.ltsp.edu/reflections/2004-2005/050305gafney.html
• Discussion thread at Monachos.net: Sophia in the patristic tradition

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