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Clement,
a native of Athens, was converted to Christianity by Pantaenus, founder of
the Catechetical School at Alexandria (then the intellectual capital of the
Mediterranean world), and succeeded his teacher as head of the School about
180. For over 20 years he labored effectively as an apologist for the faith
and catechist of the faithful. He regarded the science and philosophy of the
Greeks as being, like the Torah of the Hebrews, a preparation for the
Gospel, and the curriculum of his School undertook to give his students both
a knowledge the Gospel of Christ and a sound liberal education. His
speculative theology, his scholarly defense of the faith and his willingness
to meet non-Christian scholars on their own grounds, helped to establish the
good reputation of Christianity in the world of learning and prepare the way
for his pupil, Origen, the most eminent theologian of Greek Christianity.
Clement is not on the present Roman calendar (having been removed by
Bellarmine at the time of Galileo, when the Roman See was undergoing a
period of wariness about intellectual venturesomeness), but is on the
Eastern calendar and many modern revisions of the Anglican calendar. His
influence has been considerable.