Paideia Klemensa Aleksandryjskiego na przykładzie jego „Hymnu do Chrystusa Zbawiciela”
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2009
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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Paideia by Clement of Alexandria on the Example of 'Hymnus to Christ'
Abstract
'Hymnus to Christ' by Clement of Alexandria makes a poetic ending to
the treatise 'paidagogos'. The hymn contains the conception of Christ as a teacher of
the universe, a divine instructor. As the starting point of his deliberations, Clement takes
Greek pagan culture within which the concept of paideia developed, and so to say, was
promoted by Plato. Clement adopts paideia in its profound philosophical meaning that
Plato gave it in his Laws defining God’s relation to the world as follows: ‘God is the Instructor
of the whole world’. This very idea enabled Clement to depict Christ as the
instructor of mankind.
In my article, I focused on the hymn itself which crowns the treatise, as well as the
synthesis of the idea of Christ Educator. The work has the qualities of a hymn of praise
and thanksgiving and is an interesting example of the prayer poetry on the turn of 2nd
century. Clement is one of the first Christian poets to draw on a rich source of Hellenic
and classical culture, imitating the literary genres established in pagan Greece on one
hand, and propagating Christianity on the other. The author is also regarded as the last
and most important Christian Apologist.
I think that all these aspects are reflected in 'Hymnus to Christ'. In my article,
I carried out a stylistic, linguistic, metrical and theological analysis, and in the course
of it, I pointed out the means and literary genre Clement used in order to depict Christ as
an instructor and educator.
Can Educator be acknowledged as a didactic work? I think that in the widest
meaning of didactics understood as the education of mankind, that is, being an element
of the philosophy of culture, as defined so by Clement himself, 'paidagogos' with its
beautiful final chord can be regarded as a work on education, especially on the Educator.
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Clement of Alexandria, Christian poetry, Paideia, Litany, Educator
Citation
Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2009, nr XIX, pp. 121-134
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978-83-232-2153-1