Clement of Alexandria 150 AD – 215 AD

Titus Flavius Clemens, known as Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian and the first major teacher of the catechetical school at Alexandria, where he helped to shape a learned Christianity in dialogue with Greek philosophy. His trilogy, the Protrepticus, the Paedagogus, and the Stromateis, articulates a vision of Christian wisdom that integrates Platonism and Stoicism with the Hebrew scriptures. He held that philosophy had been given to the Greeks as a preparation for the Gospel and developed an early Christian doctrine of the Logos. He fled the persecution of 202 and died in Cappadocia.