Clement of Alexandria - “Faith as True Gnosis: Early Christian Wisdom Between Revelation and Reason”
Fri, Jan 09
|Zoom - 02:00 PM - ET
Clement of Alexandria was an early Christian intellectual who sought to harmonize Greek philosophical paideia with the revelatory wisdom of the Gospel, presenting faith as the true gnosis that perfects reason rather than abolishing it.
Time & Location
Jan 09, 2026, 1:00 PM – 1:55 PM CST
Zoom - 02:00 PM - ET
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About the event
Clement of Alexandria stands as a seminal figure in early Christian thought, articulating a vision of faith in which divine revelation and disciplined reason are not adversaries but συνεργοί, co-workers in the ascent of the soul toward God; drawing deeply from Greek philosophy while remaining anchored in apostolic tradition, he understood Christ as the true Logos who fulfills all partial wisdom, presenting Christian life as a pedagogical journey from simple faith (πίστις) to perfected knowledge (γνῶσις) ordered by love and ethical transformation rather than speculative abstraction.