The Church Fathers · c. 198–203
Miscellanies
Stromateis
Clement of Alexandria · c. 150–c. 215
What it is
Deliberately unsystematic notebooks arguing that philosophy was God's covenant with the Greeks as the law was with the Jews, and sketching the true gnostic — the mature Christian whom knowledge makes loving rather than superior.
Why it lasted
The founding text of Christian intellectual culture, and the reason Alexandria rather than Rome became the early church's university.
Where to read it
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