Clement's Theology of Faith

Clement was trying to show that Orthodox Christianity too can make use of traditional learning and match Gnosticism in its sophistication. In this era, Orthodox Christian belief had several competitors, not just pagans and Gnostics, but also Jews. No text sums up the problematic relationship so well as the dialogue with Trufo written by another apologist Justin Martyr. Most of the text is dedicated to exegesis of the Old Testament, attempting to show that it prefigures and justifies Christian belief.