Sophia (wisdom)
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"<b>Sophia</b> (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AF%CE%B1" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:σοφία">σοφία</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> for "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a>") is a central idea in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_philosophy" title="Hellenistic philosophy">Hellenistic philosophy</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_religion" title="Hellenistic religion">religion</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism" title="Platonism">Platonism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(Gnosticism)" title="Sophia (Gnosticism)">Gnosticism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_theology" title="Christian theology">Christian theology</a>.</p>
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In Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianity, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Wisdom" title="Holy Wisdom">Holy Wisdom</a></b> (<i>Hagia Sophia</i>) is an expression for the second person of the Holy Trinity (as in the dedication of the church of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia" title="Hagia Sophia">Hagia Sophia</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>). References to "Wisdom" (<i>Sophia</i>) in the Old Testament translate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew" title="Biblical Hebrew">Hebrew</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokhmah" title="Chokhmah">Chokhmah</a></i>.
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia(Gnosticism)" title="Sophia (Gnosticism)">In Gnosticism</a>, <i>Sophia</i> is a feminine figure, analogous to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche(psychology)" title="Psyche (psychology)">soul</a> but also simultaneously one of the feminine aspects of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad(Gnosticism)" title="Monad (Gnosticism)">the Godhead</a>. Gnostics held that she was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon(Gnosticism)" title="Aeon (Gnosticism)">syzygy</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ</a> (i.e. the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Christ" title="Bride of Christ">Bride of Christ</a>), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Holy Spirit</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a>. She is occasionally referred to by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> equivalent of <i>Achamōth</i> (Ἀχαμώθ, Hebrew חכמה <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokhmah" title="Chokhmah">chokhmah</a></i>) and as <i>Prunikos</i> (Προύνικος)."</p>