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The Stromata, or Miscellanies (With Active Table of Contents) Kindle Edition

by Clement of Alexandria (Author), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (Editor), Alexander Roberts (Translator), Format: Kindle Edition

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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.

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drebra sterling

great start

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2014

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for those looking into the beginning of everything, this is a great start...i recommend it to everyone looking for deeper meaning of all things spiritual...

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Sea Padre

Historic

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2018

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Good read

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I just got my volume six, which I didn't really know existed or not. Mine did not come with a CD so I don't know what some of them sound like. But I am very happy to complete the set here

An apology for writing the Gospel of Thomas

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024

I think the Stromata is an apology done in mysterious tones for writing the Gospel of Thomas
The 8th book of the stomata is not part of the original strata, the 8th book is lost. Old translations often give you a Latin translation of book 3 instead of English or instead of the original Greek, for some perverse reason.
Ask what he's really saying in the very beginning, book one chapter one the first 10 or so paragraphs, and ask what he's saying at the end of book 7 as he introduces book 8,
And see the self revelatory explanations here and there in the text. And a few of the Gospel of Thomas examples spread here and there also as is usual to point out some in a modern copy of the gospel of Thomas.

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Isaiah

I just felt moved to leave a review of IMO the greatest work ever written outside of the Bible

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2016

I'm reviewing this book but not this particular published version because I don't own it. I just felt moved to leave a review of IMO the greatest work ever written outside of the Bible.

I have been studying philosophy, history, religion, law, science, and other subjects for 18 years. After reading the scriptures 10 years ago they forever changed my life. So after I had read the Bible several times and really focused all my energy and efforts on trying to understand it I began studying the works of the Christians who lived up to the early 300's. So I read Tertullian, Cyprian, Lactantius, Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria, Oregin, and many others looking to gain some insight into how the early Christians viewed the teachings of Christ and their understanding of things. After studying their works for a couple years Clement of Alexandria became my favorite to read because the pure genius of this man is rather mind blowing.

If I could narrow down what this book focuses on the most during it's many many pages, it would be what a perfect man looks like. He speaks of the True Gnostic (not the heretical sect of his day, he mentions them as well) and what he looks like spiritually; how he speaks, how he lives, how he acts, how he feels, how he behaves, how he carries himself, how he views the world, how he overcomes all things and literally after perfection has taken place he finds himself king over the world and can be touched by no sin, no pain, no suffering, no misery, no hate, no longing, no hypocrisy, no weakness in any way will ever interfere with him ever again because he has overcome the world completely and absolutely through the power and grace of Jesus Christ. I know this flies in the face of the teachings of modern christianity but this is what the early Christians believed and some claimed to have obtained. Even those who weren't able to achieve the perfection spoken of by Clement in this work still held it as their daily goal always working to that perfect state of complete conquering of the world and all it's ungodliness. Clement knew not all Christians were able to achieve this level of purity, but they should never give up. Clement also explains the process by which this happens.

I think a lot of those who only know the modern versions of whats called christianity will be a bit shocked and perhaps at times accusing the early Christians as being heretics because the way they lived, and what they believed was so different from anything of recent memory. But keep in mind Christianity was never more united, devoted, loyal, courageous, moral, and pure than it was during this generation. It all went downhill after 320-350AD and only got worse after.

It's impossible to read Clement (or any of the early Christian writers) and not realise how much love he had for God. It may make you feel ashamed while reading because you realise how weak, sad, and pathetic you are in so many ways and here is this man who writes such amazing and beautiful things that break your heart when you understand they are true.

Every lover of The Father, and His Son should read this book because there isn't any better when it comes to teaching who the Christian should strive to be.

He also gives basically a college level education on what the pagans/philosophers taught and believed and how silly it all is.

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J. A. Boman

The weakest of the trilogy

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2013

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After enjoying the first two volumes of the trilogy, I dove into the Miscellanies with anticipation. But after making it through to the end (admittedly skimming some sections), I felt let down. The book has all the weaknesses of the first two volumes, and few of their strengths.

Miscellanies, as the title implies, covers a vast array of topics. Clement goes from the spiritual value of Greek philosophy to marriage and chastity to a mystical view of Biblical numerology, with many stops and tangents in between. This is no easy read; Clement is dense and rambling at times. I found far less "helpful nuggets" buried in this third volume, and the excavation required much more taxing. Furthermore, those who have read Exhortation to the Heathen and The Instructor will find much repetition and redundancy in this work.

It is worth noting that this volume is longer than the previous two books combined. And like volume two, Miscellanies has jettisoned the footnotes that were so appreciated in the first book. Those factors make this the most daunting read of the set.

If you are a completist, then Miscellanies is worth a read. But if (like me) your aim is simply an introduction to Clement and getting a feel for what he is like, than I advise you to skip this last book.

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Debbie Strnad

"Bottom of the Hill Publishing" desperately needs an editor.

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2015

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The Stromata itself is an interesting read - this copy, however, is atrocious. The publisher should have employed an editor to correct the spelling and punctuation errors that abound on every page. It appears that in copying some online version into printed form, their word processor screwed up much of the text, changing words like "will" and "called" to "win" and "caned," for example. It's pretty messy. It's also really annoying that given the abundance of quotes Clement utilizes, from scriptures and apocrypha to Greek philosophers and poets, there is not a single note citing the source. This is a cheap copy so I wasn't expecting an index and much else in the way of useful reference, but c'mon. If you can, find a better publisher.

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Héctor Guillermo Muñoz

Insanely long, but quite rewarding

Reviewed in Mexico on July 18, 2020

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I was able to go through the Stromata thanks to Amazon Alex's mobile app that read it aloud. Clement is a first rate Church Father and he has some really great insights to teach. However, being this a book of miscellaneous thoughts, the best sections are sometimes intermixed with lengthy digressions that leave you wondering why you are not watching a TV show instead. My favorite parts were definitely the expositions on how God prepares each culture by the seeds of the word, which Clement teaches is exactly what took place with Greek Philosophy, which for him was a preparation for the Gospel akin (though not parallel, as it only contained *seeds* of truth) to the Old Twstament for the jews. Clement also lays out a pretty clear picture of the Christian ethos of life (practicing virtue through moderation, even on what is licit) and how the Christian is to live in the midst of the world - which I found it to be most useful. He also speaks about the married life, the exercise of the virtues and moderation therein, and how a life that is modeled through the Gospel can come to purify itself and be able to see the beauty and love of God not only in creation, but also in those he loves.

I therefore think the book is a quite interesting book for whoever has the time or energy for going through it. [A quick advise is simply skipping ahead some parts, such as a whole chunk of book one when he veery tediously and insanely lengthily traces his argument on why he thinks Plato copied ideas from the Jewish Bible..]