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Holy Wisdom

Full-page illustration of Sapientia (Wisdom) of the 12th century. Wisdom is the central figure, between the figures of Christ (above), Zechariah, father of John the Baptist and the patriarch Jacob (below), David and Abraham, Malachi and Balaam, Isaiah, and Daniel (to the left and right, respectively)

Holy Wisdom (Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanizedHagia Sophia, Latin: Sancta Sapientia) is a concept in Christian theology.

Christian theology received the Old Testament personification of Wisdom (Hebrew Chokmah) as well as the concept of Wisdom (Sophia) from Greek philosophy, especially Platonism. In Christology, Christ the Logos as God the Son was identified with Divine Wisdom from earliest times.

There has also been a minority position which identified Wisdom with the Holy Spirit instead. Furthermore, in mystical interpretations forwarded in Russian Orthodoxy, known as Sophiology, Holy Wisdom as a feminine principle came to be identified with the Theotokos (Mother of God) rather than with Christ himself. Similar interpretations were proposed in feminist theology as part of the "God and Gender" debate in the 1990s.


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Αγία Σοφία (έννοια) Greek Saĝo (teologio) EO خرد (دانایی) FA Sainte Sagesse French Sofia (sapienza) Italian حکمت (ذهن) PS Sfânta Înțelepciune Romanian حکمت (دماغ) UR

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