Clement of Alexandria


Clement of Alexandria
Clement depicted in 1584
Church Father, Theologian
BornTitus Flavius Clemens
c. 150 AD
Athens, Achaia, Roman Empire
Diedc. 215 AD
Jerusalem, Syria Palaestina, Roman Empire
Venerated inOriental Orthodoxy
Eastern Catholicism
Anglican Communion
CanonizedPre-congregation
Feast4 December (Eastern Catholicism, Anglicanism)
5 December (Episcopal Church, Anglicanism)
ControversyRegarded as a heretic by Photius.
Catholic cult suppressed
c. 1605 by Pope Clement VIII

Philosophy career
Other namesClement Alexandrine
Notable work
Era
RegionWestern philosophy
School
InstitutionsCatechetical School of Alexandria
Notable studentsOrigen and Alexander
Main interests
Christian theology
Notable ideas
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Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; c. 150c. 215 AD),[4] was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen and Alexander of Jerusalem. A convert to Christianity, he was an educated man who was familiar with classical Greek philosophy and literature. As his three major works demonstrate, Clement was influenced by Hellenistic philosophy to a greater extent than any other Christian thinker of his time, and in particular, by Plato and the Stoics.[5] His secret works, which exist only in fragments, suggest that he was familiar with pre-Christian Jewish esotericism and Gnosticism as well. In one of his works he argued that Greek philosophy had its origin among non-Greeks, claiming that both Plato and Pythagoras were taught by Egyptian scholars.[6]

Clement is usually regarded as a Church Father. He is venerated as a saint in Coptic Christianity, Eastern Catholicism, Ethiopian Christianity, and Anglicanism. He was revered in Western Catholicism until 1586, when his name was removed from the Roman Martyrology by Pope Sixtus V on the advice of Baronius. The Eastern Orthodox Church officially stopped any veneration of Clement of Alexandria in the 10th century.[citation needed] Nonetheless, he is still sometimes referred to as "Saint Clement of Alexandria" by both Eastern Orthodox[7] and Catholic[8] authors.

  1. ^ Bromiley, Geoffrey William, ed. (October 29, 1979). The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-80283781-3. Archived from the original on July 29, 2020. Retrieved December 31, 2019 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Clement of Alexandria. "VI". Stromata. Vol. 6. Early Christian writings. Archived from the original on 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
  3. ^ Van Den Hoek, A. (1988) Clement of Alexandria and his Use of Philo in the Stromateis. An Early Christian reshaping of a Jewish model, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 3, Leiden.
  4. ^ Buell (1999), p. 10.
  5. ^ Outler (1940), p. 217.
  6. ^ Press (2003), p. 83.
  7. ^ Ware, The Orthodox Church, 340; De Young, The Religion of the Apostles, 44; Spark, The Orthodox Study Bible, 1800.
  8. ^ Akin, The Fathers Know Best, 45, 52, 61, 73, 93, 141, 224, 354.

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