THE GNOSTIC AS CHRISTIAN TEACHER

  • Carmen Angela Cvetković
Keywords: apatheia, gnostikos, paideia, virtue

Abstract

This paper will attempt to describe and illustrate the nature of the teacher-pupil relationship in the works of Clement of Alexandria and Evagrius Ponticus. To designate the perfect Christian these writers used the word “gnostikos”, which has in most of the cases a negative connotation among the Christian educated people of that time, since it was used to designete the heretics. We try to demonstrate on the basis of examples that this fact is due to a direct influence of Clement on the writings of Evagrius Ponticus. Even if Evagrius does not mention at all Clement, the similarities found in their works are so striking that there is no doubt that Evagrius read the works of the Alexandrinian

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Published
2004-10-01