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The Relationship Between Jesus and Sophia

...a modern feminist conception (though it has undoubtedly been picked up by feminists in more recent times). The idea that Jesus, the Word of God, is Sophia the Wisdom of God, is ancient. The connections are throughout the New Testament if we are looking carefully. Jesus speaks of Wisdom in relation to the Son of Man in Matthew 11:19; Paul, again, combines the “wisdom of God” and Jesus together as one and the same in 1 Corinthians 1:30. 1 Corinthians is filled with veiled references, which take on new meaning when viewed through this new “Sophia” lens. Such as, contrasting faith and human wisdom with the “power of God”, which as we saw earlier in the...