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  • Containing, exhibiting, or affording wisdom; characterized by wisdom.

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  • adjective Having or affording wisdom.

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  • adjective containing or conferring wisdom (especially religious wisdom)

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  • adjective characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God

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  • Paul's "sapiential" christology invites us to welcome the salvation offered by the crucified and risen Lord, the Eternal Son, who is the very wisdom and power of God.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • The sapiential tradition of the bible acclaims God as "the very author of beauty" (Wisdom 13, 3), glorifying him for the greatness and beauty of the works of creation.

    Fr Lang on Beauty and the Liturgy 2009

  • Dominic Crossan writes that Jesus subscribed to "sapiential eschatology", which he describes as announces that God has given all human beings the wisdom to discern how, here and now in this world, one can so live that God's power, rule, and dominion are evidently present to all observers.

    Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity James F. McGrath 2009

  • In the first place, I refer to the reform of ecclesiastical studies of philosophy, a project which has now reached the last stages of its elaboration, in which the metaphysical and sapiential dimensions of philosophy, mentioned by John Paul II in his Encyclical Fides et Ratio cf. n. 81, will certainly be emphasized.

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  • In the first place, I refer to the reform of ecclesiastical studies of philosophy, a project which has now reached the last stages of its elaboration, in which the metaphysical and sapiential dimensions of philosophy, mentioned by John Paul II in his Encyclical Fides et Ratio cf. n. 81, will certainly be emphasized.

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  • Book of Intellectual Circles (Sefer ha-˜agullot ha-re˜yoniyyot); it was one of the direct sources of a Spanish philosopher and kabbalist, Isaac Ibn Latif, who spoke about the Brethren's doctrine of the five degrees of soul (vegetal, animal, human, sapiential, prophetical) in his Hebrew book The Gate of Heavens (Sha˜ar ha-shamayim), written in the period

    Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

  • That's sapiential eschatology in John D Crossan's terminology.

    Philocrites: Uh oh: Here come the Christian humanists! 2005

  • Just as, in the sapiential books of Hebrew Scripture and the Apocrypha, God's wisdom makes it possible to understand the world as a coherent whole, so the conviction of covenant fidelity makes it possible to understand the history of Israel as a whole, as one story.

    A lecture given at a conference on 'The place of Covenant in Judaism, Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations' Centre for the Study of Jewish Christian Relations, Cambridge 2004

  • It is to be noted that in the pre-sapiential books of the Old Testament, the uncreated

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Rufinus add the "Teaching" to the sapiential and other deutero-canonical books.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

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