Klemens wa Aleksandria

Klemens wa Aleksandria (150-211/216).

Titus Flavius Clemens (anayejulikana zaidi kama Klemens wa Aleksandria; kwa Kigiriki: Κλήμης Αλεξανδρεύς, Klemes Alexandreus; Athens, 150 hivi; Aleksandria, 215 hivi) alikuwa mwanafalsafa na mwanateolojia wa Ukristo katika mji wa Aleksandria (Misri) mwanzoni mwa karne ya 3.

Huhesabiwa kati ya walimu muhimu wa Kanisa la kwanza.

Anaheshimiwa na Waorthodoksi wa Mashariki, Waanglikana na wengineo kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 4 Desemba.

Maisha

Opera omnia, 1715

Klemens alikuwa mwenyeji wa Ugiriki aliyezaliwa katika familia ya wapagani matajiri mjini Athens.

Baada ya kupokea imani ya Kikristo, alisafiri akitembelea walimu Wakristo katika nchi mbalimbali kama vile Ugiriki, Italia na Palestina hadi Misri.

Huko alipewa nafasi ya kufundisha kwenye Chuo cha Kikristo cha Aleksandria akishirikiana na mwanzilishi wake Panteno.

Jitihada ya Klemens ilikuwa kupatanisha imani ya Kikristo na dhana za falsafa ya Kigiriki. Alifaulu kufafanua Ukristo kwa wasomi wapagani na kuvuta wengi kwenye imani yake mpya.

Klemens alikuwa ndiye mwalimu wa Origene.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko
• Mababu wa Kanisa

Maandishi

• Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Graeca with analytical indexes and concordances
• Clement's Protrepticus Archived 16 Mei 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
• Clement's Stromateis
• Clement's Paedagogus
• Hypotyposes

Marejeo

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Viungo vya nje

• "Clement of Alexandria" by Francis P. Havey, in the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1908.
• Reinhold Koltz, Titi Flaui Clementis Alexandrini opera omnia (E.B. Schwickerti, Lipsiae 1831), Vol. 1, 2, 3, and 4.
• The role and view of Scripture in Clement of Alexandria Archived 19 Machi 2014 at the Wayback Machine.