Clement of Alexandria: Exhortation to the Greeks. The Rich Man's Salvation. To the Newly Baptized

by Clement of Alexandria, G. W. Butterworth (Translator)

Overview

A scholarly evangelist.

Clement of Alexandria, famous Father of the Church, is known chiefly from his own works. He was born, perhaps at Athens, about AD 150, son of non-Christian parents; he converted to Christianity probably in early manhood. He became a presbyter in the Church at Alexandria and there succeeded Pantaenus in the catechetical school; his students included Origen and Bishop Alexander. He may have left Alexandria in 202, was known at Antioch, was alive in 211, and was dead before 220.

We have Clement’s Exhortation to the Greeks to give up gods for God and Christ; Tutor (3 books), wherein Clement instructs Christians on how to act in keeping with Christ’s teachings; Stromateis (Patchwork, 8 books), intending to stress the true nature of the Christian Gnostic; and Who Is the Man Who Is Saved? (an exposition of Mark 10:17–31). This volume contains the Exhortation to the Greeks, the treatise on the rich man, and an exhortation To the Newly Baptized. Clement was an eclectic philosopher of a neo-Platonic kind who later found a new philosophy in Christianity, and studied not only the Bible but the beliefs of Christian heretics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674991033
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1919
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #92
Edition description:	7th printing/1st pub.1919/index
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 0.80(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

George William Butterworth (1879–1963) was Bodington Memorial Fellow at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Bibliography

Exhortation To The Greeks

The Rich Man's Salvation

To The Newly Baptized

Appendix: The Greek Mysteries

Indexes