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Sophia

Wisdom: in Greek philosophy the highest knowledge, and in Jewish and Christian thought the divine Wisdom.

Also: wisdom

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

Sophia is wisdom. Philosophy is its love, philosophia. Aristotle defined it as knowledge of first causes. In the Hebrew Bible’s wisdom books, Wisdom is personified as God’s companion at creation; Christian theology identified her with the Logos, and Russian sophiologists developed the theme.