Sophia: The Christian Mystic's Path To Wisdom

[hrmjustin]

Antonia Blumberg

Philosophers have been pursuing wisdom for centuries. What is it? Who has it? And where does it come from?

French philosopher René Descartes wrote in the preface for his Principles of Philosophy:

“It is really only God alone who has Perfect Wisdom, that is to say, who has a complete knowledge of the truth of all things; but it may be said that men have more wisdom or less according as they have more or less knowledge of the most important truths.”

Human beings become wise, Descartes suggested, as they begin to approach the truths known only by God. But in Christian mysticism, there is another figure who lays out a path to wisdom.

Her name is Sophia.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/17/sophia-christian-wisdom_n_5589360.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Thank you. nt

[hrmjustin]

2. Your welcome.

[okasha]

3. It's hard to track it down,

but I've seen the occasional reference to a Christ-Sophia theology, which views Sophia/Shekinah as the Second Person of the Trinity, who became incarnate as a man rather than a woman because She entered the world through a patriarchal society.