Clement of Alexandria

by Eric Osborn

Book Overview

Clement of Alexandria (150-215) lived and taught in the most lively intellectual centre 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521090814
• ISBN13: 9780521090810
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"