Viziunea lui Clement Alexandrinul despre rugăciune
Clement Alexandrinus' vision of prayer

Author(s): Mărioara Drăgan
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: Clement of Alexandria; prayer; contemplation; divine light; gnosis; divine pedagogy;
Summary/Abstract: The endeavour of Clement of Alexandria to weave the power of the graceful unity between theology as a prayer experienced in personal life, as a spiritual exercise in the complex process of contemplation, as evidenced by his writings, and theology as a science he strives to argue using the tools offered by the existing tools of his time, philosophy and science. The connection between the two comes from a theoretical contemplative and visionary practice, as one may say. Clement passes from knowledge as science to knowledge as mystery, from an external theology to an inner theology, namely to mystical theology. The spiritual union of man with God, through the view of uncreated light, will be identified in the context of hesychastic theology by Saint Simeon the New Theologian, a few centuries later. Clement's influence on the evolution of the later Christian spirituality, especially on the Eastern one, has been proved especially in the treatises of prayer by Origen and Evagrius Ponticus.

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