He was a sapiential young man. From LearnThat.org.
A sapiential government. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
That's sapiential eschatology in John D Crossan's terminology. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Uh oh: Here come the Christian humanists!] Reference
Just as, in the sapiential books of Hebrew Scripture and the Apocrypha, God's wisdom makes it possible to understand the world as a coherent whole, so the conviction of covenant fidelity makes it possible to understand the history of Israel as a whole, as one story. From Wordnik.com. [A lecture given at a conference on 'The place of Covenant in Judaism, Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations' Centre for the Study of Jewish Christian Relations, Cambridge] Reference
Book of Intellectual Circles (Sefer ha-˜agullot ha-re˜yoniyyot); it was one of the direct sources of a Spanish philosopher and kabbalist, Isaac Ibn Latif, who spoke about the Brethren's doctrine of the five degrees of soul (vegetal, animal, human, sapiential, prophetical) in his Hebrew book The Gate of Heavens (Sha˜ar ha-shamayim), written in the period. From Wordnik.com. [Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought] Reference
Rufinus add the "Teaching" to the sapiential and other deutero-canonical books. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
What we have here is a mixture of history and sapiential writing, using verbs which indicate that the action-or at least some of its effects - is still going on. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Besides reading or having read to him certain parts adapted to the spiritual probation he was undergoing, such as Job, the Passion of our Lord, and chapters of the sapiential books, he also took the entire Scriptures in course, going slowly through them from cover to cover and insisting on every word being read, genealogies and all. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Father Hecker] Reference
The intellective power is both “a riverbed and fountain of the scientific and sapiential waters ¦. From Wordnik.com. [William of Auvergne] Reference
"In all traditional religious and sapiential traditions justice is associated with truth, while truth itself is reality in the metaphysical sense. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It is symbolic, aesthetic, ascetical, and sapiential. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
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