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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 Lord Was Laid Low, Speaking of Christ, and Man Rose Up

Clement is the head of the catechetical school of alexandria. So he's on board with justin and some of the others who are going to draw heavily from plato, even though recognizing that he didn't understand jesus himself. And so actuly, if he's sayng it's allegorical, that's not a demegrating thing for the alexandrians. A it is actually a am. You donthatthat they would embrace that as the best way to understand what's going on,. rather than just looking at the literal. Which, disclaimer, doesn't mean that we agree with them. Me and chad and trevor have

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