Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation by Heath, J. M. F.
Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation by Heath, J. M. F.

Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation

Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation provides a new account...
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Author: J. M. F. Heath
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Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation by Heath, J. M. F.

Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation

$320.31
Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation by Heath, J. M. F.

Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation

$320.31
Author: J. M. F. Heath
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation provides a new account of Clement of Alexandria's Paedagogus as a programme in the formation of the judgement of taste, situating it in critical dialogue with modern approaches to the judgement of taste and aesthetics. The book's key questions are framed in light of Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction (1979): a landmark in twentieth-century scholarship on the theory of taste. J. M. F. Heath studies Clement's rhetoric and theology in the context of the Christian Second Sophistic, when Christians were experimenting with new ways of inhabiting the rhetorical and philosophical culture of the Greco-Roman world. The Paedagogus shows Clement's pedagogical method and rhetorical strategy at the early stages of Christian formation when his audience are not yet ready for abstract philosophical argument. This was a time for forming people's habits of judgement and preferences of 'taste', so as to ground their daily lives in deeper desires and aversions that are structured through a relationship with God.

This was an immensely important stage of Christian formation: many people never got beyond this to any sort of philosophical curriculum, and yet, through engaging the 'tastes' of a wide audience, Christian leaders sought to spread the gospel--and succeeded in doing so. Even for the intellectual elites, personal formation through preferences of taste was part of how they embodied their desire for God, and the way they inhabited it through the sacramental and ascetic life of the church. Bourdieu's sociological and anthropological approach proves fruitful for understanding aspects of Clement's rhetorical method and purpose, but the study of Clement's theological rhetoric in its cultural context also, in turn, points the way to a theological response to Bourdieu's theory of taste.

Author: J. M. F. Heath
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780198902010

About the Author
J. M. F. Heath, Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University

J. M. F. Heath researches and teaches in New Testament and Patristics at Durham University. Her work on Clement of Alexandria has been supported by research fellowships at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Her main research interest is in Christian formation and ancient-modern dialogue within theology, seeking an integrated account of embodied and contemplative aspects of Christian spirituality that encompasses both visual and verbal dimensions. She draws on her educational background in Classics to deepen understanding of the early patristic tradition.
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