| | | center | : | The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications) | | Document Type | : | BL | | Record Number | : | 2550 | | Doc. No | : | b12407 | | Language of Document | : | English | | Main Entry | : | Heagg, Henny Fiskea | | Title & Author | : | Clement of Alexandria and the beginnings of Christian apophaticism/ Henny Fiskea Heagg | | Publication Statement | : | Oxford ;New York: Oxford University Press,, 2006. | | Series Statement | : | (Oxford early Christian studies) | | Page. NO | : | xii, 314 p.: ; 23 cm. | | ISBN | : | 0199288089(alk.paper) | | Notes | : | Print | | Bibliographies/Indexes | : | Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-295) and indexes. | | Contents | : | Introduction -- Clement : Christian writer in second century Alexandria -- Alexandria : the social, cultural and religious world -- The origins of Alexandrian Christianity -- Clement in Alexandria : life, works and audience -- The concept of God in middle platonism -- The middle platonists, who were they? -- Main topics of middle platonic philosophy -- Theocentricity and the platonic background -- Alcinous, Numenius, and Atticus as sources for the middle platonic doctrine of the divine -- Hierarchy or levels of being -- Ineffability, divine attributes and the knowledge of God -- The question of transcendence -- Clement's method of concealment -- Esotericism and the 'secret Gospel of Mark' -- Esotericism and concealment -- Theory of symbolism : the inadequacy of language -- Esoteric knowledge and gnosis -- Clement's concept of God (i) : the apophatic essence of the Father -- The dilemma of transcendence : the ineffability of God -- The essence of God -- Clement's concept of God (ii) : the son as logos -- The doctrine of the logos -- The generation and incarnation of the logos -- Unity and distinction -- The knowledge of God -- The concept of knowledge -- The one and the one-many -- The Via Negativa -- The son as the revealer of the father : the kataphatic way -- The son as the dynamis of God -- Apophaticism and the distinction between essence and power -- Historical sketch -- The distinction between essence and dynamis -- Concluding remarks -- The reception of Clement -- Clement's contribution to apophatic theology. | | Subject | : | Clement,of Alexandria, Saint,--approximately 150-approximately 215 | | Subject | : | Negative theologyChristianity--History of doctrines | | Dewey Classification | : | 230.13092 | | LC Classification | : | BR65.C66,H34 2006 |
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