"Ulme stützt Weinstock"
Subtitle: Literarisierung kirchlicher Verkündigung auf der Basis paganer Formen bei Clemens von Alexandrien
By: Florian Amselgruber
Series: Orbis antiquus -- Band 47; Orbis antiquus -- Heft 47.
Publisher: Aschendorff
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Münster
Language: ger
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9783402144497
Subjects: Literary style; Criticism and interpretation; Literary Style; Paedagogus (Clement, of Alexandria, Saint); Quis dives salvetur? (Clement, of Alexandria, Saint)
Description: This work presents a basic literary analysis of two letters of Clement of Alexandria, Quis dives salvetur? and Paedagogus. It shows how Clemens uses literary genres to embed Christian teaching in pagan forms. The structure of Clement's works includes the use of many early Christian genres, such as homilies, florilegia, and legends of the Apostles, and also reflects the structure of the Catechetical School of Alexandria. The elm of paganism, unfruitful on its own, thus becomes the support -- on an external level of structure as well as an internal level of thought -- of the Christian vine.
Notes: Revised thesis (doctoral) - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.