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Introduction: Philo and Clement as ‘Transparencies’ Introduction: Philo and Clement as ‘Transparencies’
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Divine Transcendence and Immanence Divine Transcendence and Immanence
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Logos Theology Logos Theology
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A Proto-Dionysian Celestial Hierarchy A Proto-Dionysian Celestial Hierarchy
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Hierarchy as the Framework for Understanding Inspiration and Vision Hierarchy as the Framework for Understanding Inspiration and Vision
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Theōsis/Deification Theōsis/Deification
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The sine qua non of Spiritual Ascent: Sonship and Eldership The sine qua non of Spiritual Ascent: Sonship and Eldership
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In Guise of Conclusions: Mystagogy, Spiritual Pedagogy, and Scholarly Looters In Guise of Conclusions: Mystagogy, Spiritual Pedagogy, and Scholarly Looters
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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6 Philo and Clement of Alexandria
Get accessBogdan G. Bucur, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, is the author of Angelomorphic Pneumatology: Clement of Alexandria and Other Early Christian Witnesses (Brill, 2009), Scripture Re-envisioned: Christophanic Exegesis and the Making of a Christian Bible (Brill, 2018), and several journal articles.
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Published:18 March 2022
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Abstract
This essay studies Clement and Philo as authors in a common Alexandrian tradition who anticipate the negative theology of Dionysius. The first section on transcendence and immanence argues that, while Philo and Clement both exemplify the practice of describing God through negatives which is characteristic of the middle Platonists, Clement goes beyond his pagan models in asserting that God is known through what he is not. Again Clement marries Philo’s understanding of the Logos as the sum of divine powers with the Johannine doctrine of Christ as Logos, and Dionysius follows him in making Christology the key to revelation. Clement also anticipates Dionysius, in thought if not in word, when he represents deification as the ascent of the soul through hierarchically ordered levels of knowledge and being, though Dionysius may be more severe in his differentiation of humans and angels.
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