The article in its first part summarizes the up-to-date research about the topic of Clement of Alexandria and New Testament canon and points out the importance of the testimony of fragments of Clement's lost writing Hypotyposeis. In the second part, it investigates the concepts of canon and apocryphal in Clement's work and assures that none of these concepts is used in their current meanings. On the example of Clement's reception of the Gospel of the Egyptians, it shows the author's specific approach toward this writing as a writing of 'divergent gospel tradition' and indicates Clements's emphasis on the text interpretation. At the end, it brings a review of all apocryphal writings cited by Clement and points out that his approach is more tolerant than Origene's one.
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The work of Clement of Alexandria is often understood either as an arbitrary manipulation of philosophical notions by a Christian and a misinterpretation of Greek philosophical tradition, or as an arbitrary manipulation of Christian notions by a Greek philosopher and a misinterpretation of the biblical tradition. The paper is a contribution to the discussion about the latter criticism. One of the most important reproaches concerns Clement’s underestimation of the positive value of passion and good desires. My paper is therefore focused on Clement’s concept of human “true desire” blessed by the fourth macarism of the Matthean Beatitudes, the interpretation of which seems to be one of the crucial, yet the least obvious places in the whole of Clement’s biblical interpretation.
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