A History of Philosophy From Thales to the Present Time volume 1
A History of Philosophy From Thales to the Present Time volume 1
Friedrich Ueberweg
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, I. 9). But the criterium of true science must always be the harmony of the latter with faith [Strom. , II. 4: Kvptoj-epov ovv rf/g eTriarr/fing ri niarig Kai tariv avTtjg Kpirripiov). The Gnostic must raise himself through the world of birth and sin to communion with God [Strom. , VI. 16). With Gnosis is inseparably joined love, which renders man perfect [Strom. , VII. 10). Clement regards a positive knowledge of God as impossible; we know only what God is not. God is formless and nameless, a...lthough we rightly make use of tlie best names in designating him ; he is infinite ; he is neither genus, nor diflerence, neither I CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA, AND ORIGEN. 315 species, nor individual, neither number, nor accident, nor any tiling that can be predicated of another thing {Strom. , V. 11, 12). Only the Son, who is the power and wisdom of the Father, is positively knowable {Strom. , V. 1 seq. ). In Clement's utterances concerning the Son, the Philonic wavering between the theory of subordination and Modalism (see above, p.
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