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PART I - DIVINE PLAN/ECONOMY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

Eric Osborn
Eric Osborn
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La Trobe University, Victoria
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INTRODUCTION TO PART I

Everything is ordered by ‘the goodness of the only, one, true, almighty God, from age to age saving by the son’ (7.2.12).

‘From age to age’ the divine economy moves to fulfilment in Christ and to the offer of salvation by faith which inaugurates a new age. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Clement adds to this divine plan of salvation the gift of philosophy to the Greeks to prepare them for Christ.

Above all, he writes of the splendour of the new age which Christ has brought with greater enthusiasm than any other early Christian writer: Christ has turned sunset to sunrise.

The kerygma or apostolic preaching proclaimed a coherent divine plan or economy declared in scripture and fulfilled in Christ. How can the mobile variety of scripture present coherent answers to questions about God, humanity, right and wrong?

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Clement of Alexandria , pp. 29 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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  • DIVINE PLAN/ECONOMY
  • Eric Osborn, La Trobe University, Victoria
  • Book: Clement of Alexandria
  • Online publication: 06 July 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511734922.003
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  • Eric Osborn, La Trobe University, Victoria
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  • DIVINE PLAN/ECONOMY
  • Eric Osborn, La Trobe University, Victoria
  • Book: Clement of Alexandria
  • Online publication: 06 July 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511734922.003
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