Nature Contemplation in Clement of Alexandria - Elements of the Method

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Doru Costache
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032785547
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3278554-7
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Christianity, History of Religion, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Church history, Philosophy of religion, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient religions & mythologies, Byzantine Empire, Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems