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Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2020
The conclusion draws together the threads of the argument to reflect on the relationship between Classical and Christian traditions. Earlier generations celebrated Clement as a missionary, liberal or humanist; this book has shown that he is rather a skilled literary artist who draws his readers closer to God by reinterpreting the Classical genre of the miscellany and relocating it within Christian tradition. Whereas Roman miscellanists often wrote in order to appropriate and transform Greek culture, Clement wrote to appropriate and transform pagan culture for Christianity. Among later Christians in antiquity, his project was read and admired from the desert to the library, and he was known as the Stromatist par excellence.
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