Greek term that is equivalent to human “wisdom” related to the term knows and to aspects of “savoring” or enjoying. But the theological and biblical concept is much richer and more expressive. And it comes from a name of the Divinity itself, which is wisdom par excellence, to human participation in that prerogative. In this second aspect, the concept becomes synonymous with certain classical concepts:
– One is the sense of experience, or accumulation of knowledge given by life and by the skillful interpretation of the environment. It is the meaning that the concept of wisdom acquires in the East and whose echo is in the wisdom books of the Old Testament.
– Another is related to the ability to search, reflect and science, speculative knowledge. It is the Greek concept that is found in the Biblical Book of Wisdom, written in Alexandria around the middle of the 1st century BC and that St. Paul underestimates by considering human knowledge as “garbage” compared to that of the Gospel. (1 Cor. 1.17; 3.19).
Pedro Chico González, Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy, Editorial Bruño, Lima, Peru 2006
Source: Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy