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Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice - Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing (Hardcover)
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Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice - Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing (Hardcover)
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Clement of Alexandria's Stromateis were celebrated in antiquity but
modern readers have often skirted them as a messy jumble of notes.
When scholarship on Greco-Roman miscellanies took off in the 1990s,
Clement was left out as 'different' because he was Christian. This
book interrogates the notion of Clement's 'Christian difference' by
comparing his work with classic Roman miscellanies, especially
those by Plutarch, Pliny, Gellius, and Athenaeus. The comparison
opens up fuller insight into the literary and theological character
of Clement's own oeuvre. Clement's Stromateis are contextualised
within his larger literary project in Christian formation, which
began with the Protrepticus and the Paedagogus and was completed by
the Hypotyposeis. Together, this stepped sequence of works
structured readers' reorientation, purification, and deepening
prayerful 'converse' with God. Clement shaped his miscellanies as
an instrument for encountering the hidden God in a hidden way,
while marvelling at the variegated beauty of divine work refracted
through the variegated beauty of his own textuality.
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