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Sophiology (Russian: Софиология; by detractors also called Sophianism (Софианство) or Sophism (Софизм)) is a controversial school of thought in the Russian Orthodox tradition of Eastern Orthodox Christianity that holds that Divine Wisdom (or Sophia—Greek: σοφία; literally translatable to "wisdom") is to be ...
Sophia (Koinē Greek: σοφία, sophía —"wisdom") is a central idea in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism and Christian theology. Originally carrying a meaning of "cleverness, skill", the later meaning of the term, close to the meaning of phronesis ("wisdom, intelligence"), was significantly shaped by the term ...
Solomon and Lady Wisdom by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld, 1860. In the Septuagint, the Greek noun sophia is the translation of Hebrew חכמות ḥoḵma "wisdom". Wisdom is a central topic in the "sapiential" books, i.e. Proverbs, Psalms, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Book of Wisdom, Wisdom of Sirach, and to some extent Baruch (the last three are Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament).
The term was not new; originally it appeared in the works of early Church Fathers, as a synonym for theology. [23] It derives from Ancient Greek: θεός, romanized: theós, lit. 'god' and Ancient Greek: σοφῐ́ᾱ, romanized: sophíā, lit. 'wisdom'; thus meaning "god-wisdom", "divine wisdom", or "wisdom of God". [24]
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Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. [1]
The term theism derives from the Greek θεός [9] (theós) or theoi meaning 'god' or 'gods'. The term theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688). [ 10 ] In Cudworth's definition, they are "strictly and properly called Theists, who affirm that a perfectly conscious understanding being, or mind, existing of itself from eternity, was ...
Protagoras argued that "man is the measure of all things", meaning man decides for himself what he is going to believe. [23] The works of Plato and Aristotle have had much influence on the modern view of the "sophist" as a greedy instructor who uses rhetorical sleight-of-hand and ambiguities of language in order to deceive, or to support ...