Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice
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Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice

Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing

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Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice

Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing

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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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781108911849
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
History of Christianity

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction: A Christian among Roman Miscellanists
  8. 2 Clement's Miscellanism and the Scholarly Trope of Christian Difference
  9. 3 Studying Ancient Miscellanism: Defining Features, Scope and Method
  10. 4 Early Imperial Cultures of Miscellany-Making: Clement's Social and Institutional Contexts
  11. 5 Self-Introductions and Clement's Miscellanistic Vocation
  12. 6 Miscellany Titles and Clement's Divine Paratexts
  13. 7 The Miscellanist's Trope of Deselecting Titles and Clement's Conversion of Imagery
  14. 8 Muses in the Miscellanists' Frame
  15. 9 Clement's Theology of Hiddenness and the Logic of Christian Miscellanism
  16. 10 Mystery Initiation and Clement's Literary Paideia: The Making of a Christian Miscellanist
  17. 11 Poikilia: Theological Interpretation of a Miscellanistic Aesthetic
  18. 12 Conclusion
  19. Appendix The Literary Sequence of Protrepticus, Paedagogus, Stromateis (and Hypotyposeis)
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index