Gnosis and Neoplatonism in the exegesis of Clement of Alexandria
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Besides the different branches of predominant gnosticism in the first centuries of christianity, the work of Clement of Alexandria attests the existence of what we may call a christian orthodox gnosis, directly related to the concept of theosis or divinization. According to primary sources, gnosis and neoplatonism operates as conceptual basis of exegesis in Clement of Alexandria. This exegesis was used with a practical purpose: the ontological realization of gnostic.
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