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I think there are many links to be explored between what Maritain has to say about art and what Bulgakov says about it, noting also that both of them share the same conviction that art cannot be separated from the quest for justice, that the passion, the 'sophianic', wisdom rooted passion, to undercover the truth of the world leads you to seek justice and reconciliation as part of the search for beauty.
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Art wants the world to change and in its uncovering of the 'sophianic', the wisdom directed depths of the world, it does indeed make it possible for the world to change.
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But Merton connects this in his journals with a much deeper groundswell of interest at that time in what he refers to as 'the sophianic': that is, that level of the world where divine wisdom in its receptive femininity is at work.
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Right back to where we started – only the 'divine child' this time is not a sort of innocent, sophianic, indwelling reality, yearning heavenwards towards God; or a sort of buried innocence that you can strip your way down to.
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It means that campaigning about debt or fair trade is creative, it is an exercise of what our humanity is called to, it is the kenotic and sophianic search for a justice which is beautiful, a justice which uncovers what the world fundamentally is; a world of interdependence and interaction, a world in which self-forgetting brings joy, common, shared joy.
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Here the things of the world, the bread and the wine at the Lord's table, become unequivocally, unreservedly the vehicles of divine gift; the stuff of this world becomes soaked through with the self giving of God because the bread and the wine of the Eucharist, given into the hands of Jesus, become imbued with his sophianic life, his life as the life of self-giving wisdom.
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In the life of the Spirit, creation participates in the sophianic being of God.
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Himself speaks these words spoken from all eternity in the Son, transmitting them to creation as commands. (191-92; emphasis added) [3] Bulgakov declares that "God creates the world by and in Sophia; and in its sophianic foundation the world is divine, although it is at the same time extra-divine in its creaturely aseity" (200).
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Himself speaks these words spoken from all eternity in the Son, transmitting them to creation as commands. (191-92; emphasis added) [3] Bulgakov declares that "God creates the world by and in Sophia; and in its sophianic foundation the world is divine, although it is at the same time extra-divine in its creaturely aseity" (200).
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In the life of the Spirit, creation participates in the sophianic being of God.
jboyd commented on the word sophianic
This must mean something like, "of or related to wisdom." In addition to the examples provided by Wordnik, compare Andy Letcher, _Shroom_ (2007), 99: "Doubtless this sophianic justification in which Gordon Wasson defended himself as a pure inquirer after knowledge was heartfelt, but in several ways his behaviour failed to live up to this noble image of himself as dispassionate observer."
April 19, 2010