Gnosis, Theophany, Theosis : Studies in Clement of Alexandria's Appropriation of His Background
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Patristic Studies
ISBN-10
082046144X
ISBN-13
9780820461441
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 24th, 2002
Print length
230 Pages
Weight
450 grams
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16.00 x 23.60 x 1.80 cms
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Christian theology
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This is a series of monographs designed to provide access to research at the cutting-edge of current Patristic Studies. Particular attention is given to the development of Christian theology during the first five centuries of the Church and to the different types of Biblical interpretation which the Fathers used. Each study will engage with modern discussion of the theme being treated, but will also break new ground in original textual research.
Gnosis, Theophany, Theosis comprises three case studies of Clement’s interaction with the heterogeneous traditions integral to his Alexandrian background: Basilidean and Valentinian metaphysics of the Christ-event; Philo’s Scripture exegesis; and Hellenistic ethical theory based on Aristotle’s concept of telos. This book focuses on the three respective representative objects of interpretation that Clement shared with those traditions, namely: the rite of Christian initiation; Scripture narratives of primordial creation and God’s revelation to Abram; and the Middle Platonic idea of human telos as «assimilation to God.» By going back to the respective interpretations of these objects by those traditions, and then forth to Clement’s appropriation of those interpretations, Gnosis, Theophany, Theosis presents him as a creative theologian and lays bare the inner structure of his synthesis.
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