Script: Traditional Chinese Publisher: Logos and Pneuma Press Date: 1995 Format/Pages: Softcover, 251 pp ISBN: 962-7409-63-4 Availability: out of stock Price: $11.88
The Exhortation, the object of which is to win pagans to the Christian faith, contains a complete and withering exposure of the abominable licentiousness, the gross imposture and sordidness of paganism. With clearness and cogency of argument, great earnestness and eloquence, Clement sets forth in contrast the truth as taught in the inspired Scriptures, the true God, and especially the personal Christ, the living Word of God, the Saviour of men. It is an elaborate and masterly work, rich in felicitous classical allusion and quotation, breathing throughout the spirit of philosophy and of the Gospel, and abounding in passages of power and beauty.
Clement is accepted as a Church Father by some in the Orthodox Church but his views has leanings toward Doceticism which was raised as an objection by St Photius in the 9th century. Even so, Clement is worth studying as he had considerable influence in the early Church with the founding of the catechetical school of Alexandria with its allegorical approach to interpreting Scripture. He was also regarded with high repute among their contemporaries of the time. Read with discretion. Translated and published by non-Orthodox.