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Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 344 Publisher: to Camidge. University Press Clement of Alexandria (150-215) Lived and taught in the Most Lively intellectual center of his day This book offers a comprehensive account of how he joined the IDEAs of the New Testament to those of Plato and other classical thinkers. Clement taught that God was active from the beginning to the end of human history and that a Christian life should move on from simple faith to knowledge and love. He argued that a sequence of three elliptical relations governed the universe: Father and Son. God and humanity. humans and their neighbours. Faith as a fixed conviction which is also a growing mustard seed was joined to Plato's unwavering search for the best reason. The open heaven of prophecy became intelligible through Plato's ascending dialectic. This book will be invaluable in making this outstanding t...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    A comprehensive study of how Clement of Alexandria's writings fused Christianity and classical culture. Clement of Alexandria (150-215) lived and taught in the most lively intellectual centre of his day. This book offers a comprehensive account of...

  • Book Description

    Clement of Alexandria (150SH215) lived and taught in the most vibrant intellectual centre of his day. Here he joined the ideas of the New Testament to those of the classical world. The merging of Christianity and classical culture produced one of the most creative civilisations of all time and this book explores a key example of how that fusion occurred. It offers a comprehensive account of Clement's thought, in which he maintained his enthusiasm for the Platonic world while defending Christianity against its detractors.

  • 0521090814
  • 9780521090810
  • Eric Osborn
  • 12 January 2008
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 344
  • 1
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