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Chapter 8 - The True Prophet in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies

from Part II - Status, Role, and Functions of Human Intermediaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

By
Marco Zambon
Edited by
Elsa Giovanna Simonetti  and
Claire Hall
Elsa Giovanna Simonetti
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Claire Hall
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

Philosophy, magic and Scripture are not capable of leading men to the knowledge of truth. According to Pseudo-Clement, truth is revealed only by the True Prophet, because he alone possesses full knowledge of it. Anyone can recognise the True Prophet, provided that they are animated by a genuine desire to know the truth and that they meet a genuine witness. The witness does not prove the truth of the doctrine that he teaches, but he puts the hearers in the presence of the One from whom he has himself received the truth. Truth – though rationally arguable – is not conceptual knowledge, but evidence derived from the encounter, mediated by authentic witnesses, between the seeker and the Prophet.

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Pseudo-ClementAncient Christianity and Greek philosophyfaith and reasonprophecy and knowledge
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Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity , pp. 159 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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