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The Achievement of Clement of Alexandria1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John Ferguson
John Ferguson
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Dean and Director of Studies in Arts, The Open University
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In his masterly book Christ and Culture H. Richard Niebuhr identified five main attitudes which Christians have taken towards secular culture. The first emphasizes the opposition between Christ and culture. In the New Testament it is best seen in Revelation (where it is complicated by a situation of persecution) and in the First Epistle of John. But it appears in its most radical form in Tertullian, though even he is not wholly consistent. Men are under illusions from their very culture (Apol. 21). Graeco-Roman society was shot through and through with what Tertullian regarded as superstition and idolatry, as well as immorality. So Tertullian repudiated political life, military service, many aspects of commerce, philosophy and the arts (apart from the amount of literary training needed for expression).

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Religious Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 1976 , pp. 59 - 80
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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