Nature Contemplation in Clement of Alexandria

This book examines Clement of Alexandria's interdisciplinary approach to nature contemplation-which he terms "physiology" and "physics"-showing its internal consistency even in the absence of a clear methodological outline.

Autorentext

Doru Costache is a Romanian Orthodox priest living in Australia and Associate Professor of Theology at the Sydney College of Divinity. He is the current Selby Old Fellow in the Religious History of the Orthodox Christian Faith at the University of Sydney Library. Until recently, he was Honorary Research Associate in Studies in Religion, the University of Sydney's School of Humanities. He coedits ISCAST's interdisciplinary journal, Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology. His lecturing and research career spans 30 years. He authored Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations (2021) and coauthored A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology (with Geraint F. Lewis, 2024) and Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt (with Bronwen Neil and Kevin Wagner, 2019).

Klappentext

This book examines Clement of Alexandria's interdisciplinary approach to nature contemplation-which he terms "physiology" and "physics"-showing its internal consistency even in the absence of a clear methodological outline.

Inhalt

Prologue: Clement of Alexandria's Interdisciplinary Contemplation of Nature; Chapter 1: Paideia, Theological Anthropology, and the Curriculum; Chapter 2: Elements of the Method; Chapter 3: Enter the Holy Gnostics; Chapter 4: The Cosmos as an Object of Gnostic Contemplation; Chapter 5: Performing Nature Contemplation; Epilogue: Learnings.