When I read CoP in college I was under the impression that Boethius thought highly of Philosophy b/c of all the muses, he opts for Lady Philosophy, and not something like Lady Wisdom from Proverbs. It is hard to find much of any Biblical references. My guess at the time was that Boethius wanted to see what he could figure out, rather than begin and end with the conclusions of theology. If B. is in prison and thinking about his near-death, why isn’t he taking a more explicitly theological tact. To my mind, he was writing/acting more like Socrates and less like … St. Paul, or St. John. Nevertheless, we can ’say’ B. was a Christian on the basis of his theological treatises. His On the Trinity was ALSO passed on to the Middle Ages–to the theologians; it is just that his On the Trinity is a technical piece and less an ‘existential one’ like CoP, which is one reason why so many more medievals read it–they didn’t have to bother with Aristotle and his categories much (which is what gets discussed in his On the Trinity).