Sophia (Gnosticism)
FEMININE FIGURE IN GNOSTICISM
Sophia (gnosticism); Achamoth; Mythos of the soul; Wisdom in Gnosticism; Sophia (deity); Sophia (goddess); Epinoia; Prunikos; Sophia Yaldabaoth
Sophia ( "Wisdom", "the Sophia") is a major theme, along with Knowledge ( gnosis, Coptic ), among many of the early Christian knowledge-theologies grouped by the heresiologist Irenaeus as (), ‘knowing’ or ‘men that claimed to have deeper wisdom’. Gnosticism is a 17th-century term expanding the definition of Irenaeus' groups to include other syncretic and mystery religions.