The Moral Psychology of Clement of Alexandria: Mosaic Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367880521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str.

Kathleen Gibbons

Opis

In The Moral Psychology of Clement of Alexandria, Kathleen Gibbons proposes a new approach to Clement's moral philosophy and explores how his construction of Christianity's relationship with Jewishness informed, and was informed by, his philosophical project. As one of the earliest Christian philosophers, Clement's work has alternatively

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Note on Translations

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Mosaic Law in early Christianity

Chapter 2: Miming Moses: Clement’s Self-Presentation and the Dependency Theme

Chapter 3: Moses, Statesman and Philosopher

Chapter 4: The Logos of God, the Problem of Evil, and Clement’s Transformation of Providence

Chapter 5: Right Reason and the Gnostic’s Grasp of the Mosaic Law

Chapter 6: Clement’s Idiosyncratic Concept of Autonomy in the Context of Ancient Thought

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Kathleen Gibbons received her PhD from the University of Toronto, and subsequently taught at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is a lecturer in religious studies and classics at Washington University at St Louis, Missouri, USA, and studies the intersections between ancient philosophy and early Christian discourse on topics including astrology, ethnography, and asceticism.