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...solution of Clement of Alexandria, who also lived in the 2nd century, was less harsh. Attempting to Christianize the Greek theory of cyclical immortality, he justified the idea of pre-existence (inimical to the Christian doctrine of creation) by maintaining that "we existed before the foundation of the world; because we were destined to be in Him, we preexisted in the sight of God." By "we," Clement meant the elect. Clement borrowed the Platonic idea of the superiority of the soul to the body-"the body tills the ground and hastens to it, but the soul presses...
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's, You owe me five farthings, say the bells of St. Martin...
...writing was a quotation from a letter written by one of the most important of the church fathers-Clement of Alexandria, who lived in the late 2nd century. The letter, to an unknown Theodore, corresponds in vocabulary and style to known writings of Clement. It refers to a "secret Gospel" of Mark-so secret, in fact, that Clement enjoins Theodore to deny knowledge of it even on oath...
Behind Seven Veils. According to Clement, Mark, while he was with Peter in Rome, wrote ''an account of the Lord's doings" that presumably was the basis of his Gospel as it is now known. But he withheld those "doings" which only the initiated should have knowledge of and did not even hint ''at the ones pertaining to the mysteries." After Peter's death, writes Clement, Mark went to Alexandria with Peter's notes on Jesus, from which he "transferred to his former book the things suitable to progress toward knowledge." Even...
...liturgical movement has come a demand for the altar-centered church. In 1942 Roman Catholic St. Mark's in Burlington, Vt. experimented with placing the sanctuary with altar at the crossing of nave and transepts, thus making it visible from three sides. In 1948 the Episcopalians at St. Clement's in Alexandria, Va. placed the altar facing banks of pews. Rector Darby Wood Betts argued that "the Church is first and foremost a family called into being by its Father which is God. Therefore we sit facing one another, rather than looking at the back of one another...