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The Maid of Heaven, the Image of Sophia, and the Logos

Author	Michael W. Sours
Title of item	The Maid of Heaven, the Image of Sophia, and the Logos
Subtitle of item	Personification of the Spirit of God in Scripture and Sacred Literature
Volume	4:1
Pages	47-65
Parent publication	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
Publisher of this ed.	Ottawa, ON: Association for Bahá'í Studies North America
Date of this edition	1991
Language	English
Permission	publisher
Posted	2021-10-24 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/sours_maid_heaven_sophia
Abstract	The Logos in Christianity and the Maiden for Bahá'u'lláh can be equated as one and the same eternal reality; the divine image of wisdom in Proverbs; Sophia and Logos are combined in the feminine personification of the Most Great Spirit.
Notes	See also Immanence and Transcendence in Theophanic Symbolism (Sours, 1992).
Tags	Allegories and metaphors; Angels; Apocrypha; Bible; Bride (symbol); Buddhism; Christianity; Ethics; Fatimah (daughter of Muhammad); Gender; Hinduism; Holy Spirit; Houris (huris); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Jesus Christ; Laws; Logos; Maid of Heaven; Most Great Spirit; Quran; Shiism; Siyah Chal (Black Pit); Solomon (king); Sophia (wisdom); Symbolism; Trustworthiness; Word of God; Zoroastrianism
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Last edited	2022-03-31 02:34 EST. See previous versions [archive.org].

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