Neoplatonism in Relation to Christianity : An Essay
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G. Strom. 7. 59 end.
Ill] CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY 47 are by no means devoid of interest. Thus we may learn from the elaborate apology with which the first book opens, that the intellectual and speculative Christians for whom Clement was writing, were, even at Alexandria, in a minority. Indeed, so great was the number of those who shared the view that philosophy and Greek culture were apt to lead men to heresy and unbelief, and that it was therefore best to leave these things alone, that Clement ac...tually goes out of his way to defend even the practice of literary composition. He treats these upholders of a narrower Christianity with unfailing courtesy and consideration, endeavouring always to convert rather than to confute them ; and it is to the credit of both parties that there was never any open breach between them.
The aim of Clement of Alexandria was to absorb into his teaching all that was good in Greek thought, whilst rejecting all that was bad and worthless. To reject the whole of Greek philosophy, as the majority of the early Fathers had done, was becoming in- creasingly difficult and unwise : to accept good and bad indiscriminately involved serious risk of running into Gnostic and other heresies.
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G. Strom. 7. 59 end.
Ill] CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY 47 are by no means devoid of interest. Thus we may learn from the elaborate apology with which the first book opens, that the intellectual and speculative Christians for whom Clement was writing, were, even at Alexandria, in a minority. Indeed, so great was the number of those who shared the view that philosophy and Greek culture were apt to lead men to heresy and unbelief, and that it was therefore best to leave these things alone, that Clement ac...tually goes out of his way to defend even the practice of literary composition. He treats these upholders of a narrower Christianity with unfailing courtesy and consideration, endeavouring always to convert rather than to confute them ; and it is to the credit of both parties that there was never any open breach between them.
The aim of Clement of Alexandria was to absorb into his teaching all that was good in Greek thought, whilst rejecting all that was bad and worthless. To reject the whole of Greek philosophy, as the majority of the early Fathers had done, was becoming in- creasingly difficult and unwise : to accept good and bad indiscriminately involved serious risk of running into Gnostic and other heresies.
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