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Episode 90: Ante-Nicene Catholicism

Literature and History

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Clement of Alexandria's History of Greek Thought

Clement of Alexandria, around 200 CE, was trying to make Plato and company appear Christian or at least Jewish. St. Augustine incensed at the notion that Jesus might have taken ideas from Plato. Clement's historical revisionism shaky as it was proved attractive to later Christian theologians. We might dismiss his Uvarah on the basis of its historical inaccuracies but other faults with posterity can be found too.

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