Jacob Boehme on the Virgin Mary as the Incarnation of Sophia

In observation of the Feast of the Assumption, I thought I'd share an excerpt from my book The Submerged Reality: Sophiology and the Turn to a Poetic Metaphysics on Jacob Boehme's thoughts on the Virgin Mary and Sophia. Central to Boehme’s Christology—and the locus of its intersection with his Sophiology—is the role of the Virgin Mary. First of all, Mary is for Boehme the vessel of the Incarnation, “a bright Morning-Star, above other Stars.”1 Boehme esteems her above all other creatures, much...