Christ And Sophia: Anthroposophic Meditations on the Old Testament, New Testament, And Apocalypse

by Valentin Tomberg

In these astounding meditations on the true Christian nature of the scriptures, Tomberg shows how the entire Bible tells the history of the Christ being; describes the cosmic and earthly preparations for the Mystery of Golgotha, its significance and results for humanity and the world as a whole; shows the central role of the Sophia being and her relationship to the Christ, to the Holy Spirit, to the Disciples and Pentecost, and to humanity as a whole; and imagines the Grail nature of the Christ's involvement in earthly history. At last, these profound studies are available in a single volume. Long out of print, this newly revised text includes Valentin Tomberg's anthroposophic meditations on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Apocalypse. The appendix contains his unfinished work, "The Four Sacrifices of Christ." Here are all of Valentin Tomberg's essential anthroposophic works on the scriptures together for the first time. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual scientific approach to esoteric Christianity as revealed by a close, meditative reading of the Bible—from Genesis to the Revelation of St. John.

Genres: Philosophy, Christian, Nonfiction, Theology, Christianity

432 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2006

About the author

Valentin Arnoldevitch Tomberg was an Estonian-Russian Christian mystic, scholar, and hermetic magician.

Reviews

[Maricarmen Loizaga · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my opinion this is a great book, definitely is not a sequel to Rudolf Steiner. If you are an independent thinker, not subordinated to controlling religions, dogmas or associations, you will enjoy this enlightening literature. Valentin Tomberg developed his own insights in addition to writings by Steiner and for that very reason Tomberg has been largely attacked. Anyone who tried to go further from Steiner ideas was considered kind of treacher to Anthroposophical Society. As I feel more comfortable with Tomberg's Neo-planonist drive than with Steiner's Aristotelian trend, I have been really enjoying Christ and Sophia. Allow your intellect to reap benefit from this reading. I highly recommend Tomberg's Christ and Sophia, and Meditations on the Tarot too. I posted this review also at Amazon website.

[Murray · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is Tomberg writing at his most anthroposphical. His ideas are really interesting but you probably need a background in Rudolph Steiner's philosophy and world view to make much of his interesting speculations.

[STEPHEN COBB · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tomberg's writings are resonant and inspirational - to me, he's a real Friend.

[Roger Buck]

I am neither rating this nor saying much as the complex issues here cannot be reduced to a soundbites. Suffice it to say the author specifically requested that his early works (of which this book contains four) not be republished. This no doubt had much to do with the author's astonishing conversion to Catholicism around 1944. There is however much much more about this at my website which contains an archive of materials related to Tomberg with materials hard to find in the English language. Link here:

http:/corjesusacratissimum.org/tag/valentin...

Also I pray this post about Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg may be particularly useful in terms of the above issues:

http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2011/...

[Connie Backus-yoder · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not what I expected. This is too esoteric for me.

[Mark Babcock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coherent Platonic Exegesis of the Bible

A deep look into the spiritual current from the East. Meditations on the Tarot are what lead me here. Amen.