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  • 18 - Sophia and the World Soul

  • from Part III - Engagements
  • Edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton, University of Toronto, Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
    Published online:
    21 July 2022
    Print publication:
    04 August 2022, pp 286-302

  • Summary

    The idea of the world soul is a distinctive Platonic doctrine. It is particularly significant in late Antique thought, the 12th century Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance. It is transmitted via the Cambridge Platonists, mystical pietism, Cabbala and the Spinoza revival to German Romantic period and the great age of Russian literature. Historically, it has been either loosely associated with or even identified with the Divine Sophia. This Divine Wisdom itself has a complex reception history, and constitutes a conspicuous feminine image of the Divine, and is relevant to recent discussions about the intellectual inheritance of Western Christian thought and the ecological crisis.