The Language of Wisdom

The Logos of the Creation in whom all things were created  can be nothing other than divine wisdom.

Thus it is that wisdom Is eternal, for it precedes every beginning and all created reality.

Nicholas of Cusa Cited in Christian Mystics

Matthew Fox adds Nicholas of Cusa to his pantheon of Christian mystics because  he embraces the dimension of wisdom that can be sorely lacking when Scripture is centered exclusively on faith as its foundation.

He writes:

Cusa connects the Cosmic Christ as Logos (or Word) with the Cosmic Christ as wisdom. They are the same. Wisdom precedes all beginnings and all creation. Wisdom was there from before the beginning of the world.

Since the 1980’s, when Original Blessings first appeared, and The Coming of the Cosmic Christ soon after, I declared that I had found my theological home in Creation Spirituality!

I have continued gratefully and enthusiastically on that place of alignment and support through until 2020, when I readily admit my interest in the future of Creation Spirituality communities had waned. Without getting into an extensive dialogue, I will say that I feel it has been too little too late, and while Fox’s books can still be considered relevant and inspirational, I have dim hopes for the establishment of any school, seminary, or intentional communities that center themselves on the teachings as a whole…

Now, on to Cusa;  who I admit required me to go back into my theological history books and research for a little refresher on his lasting importance based on his emphasis on wisdom as being foundational to all theology, ontology, and mystical foundations.

The bone I pick, the contention I hold, and the objection I raise, comes from the need to to use the term ‘Cosmic Christ’ rather than Divine Wisdom. Maybe it my orientation away from Trinitarian language, maybe it is because the words and the Scriptures describing wisdom, Hokema, (especially in the Catholic Biblical additions) are feminine; I have found it maddening, and at least disconcerting that the Christ designation is used, because it has the high likelihood of being still assumed or used as a patriarchal term.

I find it particularly comforting and theologically noteworthy to see the principle behind “the Big Bang” as being feminine, as being Wisdom. Not to be, in any way, confused with the more fundamentalist term, “intelligent design!” 

It is truly an eternal principle of divine guidance and compassionate unfolding development with an emphasis on an evolutionary wisdom or intelligence behind each facet of the Creation, from the microscopic to the infinitesimal!

This objection, I fully realize, will go unrequited, but as my own doctoral research and continued studies have pointed to, the need to elevate the Divine Feminine as Source has been lacking, and it needs to be welcomed much more widely and much more enthusiastically!