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AHOCT - Episode 24 - Clement of Alexandria's Exhortation to the Heathen (Part 2)

A History of Christian Theology

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The Relationship Between Christian and Pagan Cultures of Sexuality

Clement: pagan worship centered on prostitution, not all pagan worship. Central to their worship was orgiastic practice and sleeping with prostitutes. And much of the pagan philosophy was centred on erotic love. People are sexual and theyare sexually charged. But that is is, and has always been a tention a in when christianity is a minority in the culture.

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