Who is the Divine Sophia?  See also: The Church of the Divine Sophia

The Holy-Spirit-Sophia of St Theophilus and St Irenaeus

The St. Sophia Church dedicated to the Theotokos

The Divine Sophia of Soloviev        The Sophia of Thomas Merton          The Sophia of Bulgakov

             Berdyaev on Boehme's Sophia           Groberg on Sophia      Boethius and Sophia           

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     Sophia Figurine   

             Left: Icon based on Proverbs 9:1, which is inscribed across the top:

                                                                                                                                                    Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars

Above Icons are Russian or Byzantine See also: The Novgorod Sophia Icon and “The Problem of Old Russian Culture”

Hildegard of Bingam, in the West, portrays Sophia as "Mother Wisdom, Mother Church"