Clement of Alexandria: A Project of Christian Perfection. By Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski
Scholars have generally regarded Clement of Alexandria as fundamentally a ‘Greek’ thinker—his Platonic debts and eclecticism standing out in sharp relief to other Fathers. In recent years, however, with van den Hoek’s monograph on Clement’s use of Philo, scholars have begun to look elsewhere, partic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 328-330 |
| Review of: | Clement of Alexandria (London [u. a.] : T & T Clark, 2008) (Zecher, Jonathan L.)
Clement of Alexandria (London [u. a.] : T & T Clark, 2008) (Zecher, Jonathan L.) |
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| Summary: | Scholars have generally regarded Clement of Alexandria as fundamentally a ‘Greek’ thinker—his Platonic debts and eclecticism standing out in sharp relief to other Fathers. In recent years, however, with van den Hoek’s monograph on Clement’s use of Philo, scholars have begun to look elsewhere, particularly to Judaism, for Clement’s background. Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski advances this trend dramatically, looking first and primarily to Clement’s Judaic sources and background, then, in the light of those findings, reappraising his use of Greek sources as well as his debates with gnostic opponents. Of course, such advances carry the danger of simply turning Clementine literature into a more efficiently run mine of quotations, while ignoring the wealth at hand in Clement’s original thought. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp183 |