The Works of Clement of Alexandria: The Stromata, On the Salvation of the Rich Man, Pædagogus and More (5 Books With Active Table of Contents)

This collection gathers together the works by Clement of Alexandria in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!

Fragments of Clemens Alexandrinus

On the Salvation of the Rich Man

The Stromata, or Miscellanies

Pædagogus: The Instructor

Exhortation to the Heathen

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Saint Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian and the head of the noted Catechetical School of Alexandria. Clement is best remembered as the teacher of Origen. He united Greek philosophical traditions with Christian doctrine and valued gnosis that with communion for all people could be held by common Christians specially chosen by God; vide, e.g., Stromata, VI.106.4f. Though he constantly opposes the concept of gnosis as defined by the Gnostics, he used the term "gnostic" for Christians who had attained the deeper teaching of the Logos. He developed a Christian Platonism. He presented the goal of Christian life as deification, identified both as Platonism's assimilation into God and the biblical imitation of God.
Like Origen, he arose from Alexandria's Catechetical School and was well versed in pagan literature. Origen succeeded Clement as head of the school. Alexandria had a major Christian community in early Christianity, noted for its scholarship and its high-quality copies of Scripture.
Clement is counted as one of the early Church Fathers. He advocated a vegetarian diet and claimed that the apostles Peter, Matthew, and James the Just were vegetarians.