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100	1		_aHägg, Henny Fiskå.
245	1	0	_aClement of Alexandria and the beginnings of Christian apophaticism _h[electronic resource] / _cHenny Fiskå Hägg.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2006.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 314 p.)
440		0	_aOxford early Christian studies
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-295) and indexes.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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.
500			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	0	0	_aClement, _cof Alexandria, Saint, _dca. 150-ca. 215.
650		0	_aNegative theology _xChristianity _xHistory of doctrines.
600	0	6	_aClément, _cd'Alexandrie, saint, _dca 150-ca 215.
650		6	_aThéologie négative _xChristianisme _xHistoire des doctrines.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aHägg, Henny Fiskå. _tClement of Alexandria and the beginnings of Christian apophaticism. _dOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 _z0199288089 _z9780199288083 _w(DLC) 2006006745 _w(OCoLC)64510427
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