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  Alexandrian school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alexandrian school is a collective designation for certain tendencies in literature, philosophy, medicine, and the sciences that developed in the Hellenistic cultural center of Alexandria, Egypt around the 1st century.
The name of "Alexandrian school" is also used to describe one of the two great schools of biblical interpretation in the early Christian church.
Many scholars regard Clement as the founder of the Alexandrian school of theology, which emphasized the divine nature of Christ.
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 Alexandrian Theology, Clement of Alexandria
It was Alexandrian theologians such as Saint Cyril and Saint Athanasius who took the lead in opposing Adoptionism and Nestorianism, both of which emphasized Christ's humanity at the expense of his divinity.
In 328 Athanasius succeeded Alexander as the Alexandrian bishop.
At the Council of Chalcedon (451) the Alexandrian radicals suffered defeat with the adoption in the Chalcedonian Definition of the phrase en dyo physesin.
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 History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325. | Christian Classics Ethereal ...
The Alexandrian theology aims at a reconciliation of Christianity with philosophy, or, subjectively speaking, of pistis with gnosis; but it seeks this union upon the basis of the Bible, and the doctrine of the church.
The Alexandrians did not sweepingly condemn it, but recognized the desire for deeper religious knowledge, which lay at its root, and sought to meet this desire with a wholesome supply from the Bible itself.
The Alexandrian theology is intellectual, profound, stirring and full of fruitful germs of thought, but rather unduly idealistic and spiritualistic, and, in exegesis, loses itself in arbitrary allegorical fancies.
www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc2.v.xv.xxvii.html   (1111 words)

  
 Neoplatonism
Although the school in Alexandria maintained a lingering existence until the middle of the sixth century, it was elsewhere that Hellenistic philosophy found its last refuge.
In 641 the Alexandrian school was captured by the Arabs.
Whereas the Athenian school was strongly influenced by Iamblichus, and shared his enthusiasm for metaphysics, ritual, and paganism, the Alexandrian school concentrated instead on pure scholarship.
www.kheper.net /topics/Neoplatonism/Neoplatonism-history-of.htm   (1823 words)

  
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It was contained in the mission of the Alexandrian school and its teachers to develop once and for all a coherent synthesis of Greek science and religion.
Clement of Alexandria, one of the most revered deans of the Catechetical School for his philosophical theology and intellectual acumen, was one of the foremost figures who succeeded in uniting the missions of religion and science.
As Dawson points out, the school was an ecclesiastically sponsored institution devoted to preparing candidates for Christian baptism by teaching them the basic tenets of the Christian faith.[4] While its earliest known dean was the Sicilian Pantaenus, Clement and Origen became its most famous leaders.
www.coptic.net /articles/ClementOfAlexandria.txt   (3555 words)

  
 Greek
The Alexandrian physicians revised and rewrote the entire field of science in which we are interested: physics and especially optics, even the fundamental facts of a kind of empirical chemistry (as it was necessary for the explanation of a systemic pharmacology), anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapy and surgery.
Of the four schools the faculty of medicine was the largest by far yet its contributions were less than those in the other faculties taught by Euclid, Archimedes and Hero.
The School of Alexandria and its successors developed the anatomy of the eye under the leadership of the great anatomist Herophilus of Chalcedon (344-280 BCE) who was an avid exponent of the importance of the brain and was the first to understand the nature and significance of nerves.
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 THE EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE PRIMERS
There is a technical use of terms which would limit "the Alexandrian School" to the theological institution connected with the Alexandrian Church and "the Antiochian School" to a certain school of scripture interpretation originating in Antioch.
To Origen, who completed the Alexandrian conception of the Logos by his doctrine of the "Eternally-Begotten," the Eternal Son was as real and distinct as the one Supreme God; and, as the chief exponent of a school in which faith was wedded to science, he sought to understand the relations of these conceptions.
He, therefore, as the head-master of the first Alexandrian school, whose work was now substantially done, handed over to the next age a two-fold task: to keep what faith pronounced; to complete what reason had unsuccessfully begun.
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 C. Alexandrian Philosophy. by Greek Philosophy
For the Alexandrians took as their groundwork the philosophy of Plato, but availed themselves of the general development of Philosophy, which after Plato they became acquainted with through Aristotle and all the following philosophies, and especially through the Stoics; that is to say, they reinstated it, but as invested with a higher culture.
But with Plotinus and the Alexandrians it is likewise the case that the true universe, the intellectual world, is produced from thought; what Plato termed the Ideas, is here the understanding that forms, the intelligence that produces, which is actual in that which is produced, and has itself as object, thinks itself.
Although the Neo-Platonic school ceased to exist outwardly, ideas of the Neo-Platonists, and specially the philosophy of Proclus, were long maintained and preserved in the Church; and later on we shall on several occasions refer to it.
www.marxists.org /reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpalexandrian.htm   (14411 words)

  
 Theology WebSite: Church History Study Helps: The Alexandrain School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
His work was continued in Alexandria, however, though in a vastly different style and spirit, by his pupil Origen, the greatest and most influential Christian thinker of his age, whose work won him the grudging respect even of such a radically anti-christian philosopher as the Neoplatonist Porphyry.
Born into a Christian family in Alexandria between 182 and 185, Origen gathered a group of inquirers and constituted a school with the approval of the bishop Demetrius, until 215 when the emperor Caracalla drove all teachers of philosophy from Alexandria.
He was later imprisoned and tortured in the Decian persecution of 250 AD, and died in Caesarea or Tyre, probably in 251 as a consequence of his sufferings.
www.theologywebsite.com /history/alexandria.shtml   (1017 words)

  
 The Didascalia: The Alexandrian Catechetical School
From this school came some of the greatest thinkers and leaders of the early church, whose influence has been felt down through church history.
The School of Alexandria was a great center of Christianity, for a span of five centuries, until the reign of Justinian (529 A.D.).
This school, with roots in the soil of the apostolic church of the first century, taught a Christ that was all-triumphant, with a plan of the ages to bring all things into His dominion and love.
www.tentmaker.org /biographies/didascalia.htm   (1087 words)

  
 PREACH ING
Preaching in the School of Alexandria was not only an invitation to accept the faith the soul discovers in theory, but also, an invitation to the practical life, as members of the body of Christ.
The deans of the school were never to rest until they saw that the world had become the heavenly bride.
The deans of the School were very active outside Egypt, because of their love towards the Catholic Church; they were not looking for any personal prestige nor gaining any political power for their churches.
www.suscopts.org /evangelism/frames/second/preaching.htm   (5076 words)

  
 Alexandria - Christianity Revealed - AskWhy! Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Alexandrian museum and library were founded and maintained by the long succession of the Ptolemies in Egypt from the beginning of the 3rd century BC.
The Alexandrian school was modelled on the Lyceum devoted to the studies of Aristotle in Athens, which in turn had been founded by Theophrastus modelled on Plato's Academy.
Jewish faith was influenced by the Grecian school of Pythagoras then, later, by Buddhists in the eastern schools of Alexandria and also Magians in the Zoroastrian schools which had, by then, recovered from the decimation of Alexander in Persia.
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 Melted Like Snow: Part IX
While the Alexandrian School spread across the Roman Empire and became the dominate religion, the Tarus School was suppressed as heretical by both the Pagan Romans and the Alexandrian Christians.
Knowledge of the Tarus School is mostly dependent on Alexandrian sources, and on old texts that have only recently been discovered.
While the afterlife was an important part of the Alexandrian School, it is rarely mentioned in the Tarus texts.
www.alternatehistory.com /spiritualist/melted09.html   (683 words)

  
 NPNF2-01. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine | Christian ...
Pantænus is the first teacher of the Alexandrian school that is known to us, and even his life is involved in obscurity.
His chief significance for us lies in the fact that he was the teacher of Clement, with whom the Alexandrian school first steps out into the full light of history, and makes itself felt as a power in Christendom.
The origin of this school of the faithful, or “catechetical school,” in Alexandria is involved in obscurity.
www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.x.xi.html   (1459 words)

  
 What was at stake at Chalcedon?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The school at Alexandria (and, by extension and association, Constantinople; though this was a tenuous relationship) stemmed in great part from the views of Athanasius, and the later extrapolation and expansion of those views by Apollinarius.
Theodosius, already sympathetic to the Alexandrian school, needed little convincing to join sides with Eutyches and the affronted Alexandrians–though some political arm-bending was carried out by the person of Chrysaphius, a minister and the godchild of Eutyches.
The two schools themselves likely saw the council as the potential means to further their own stand, and gain widespread support for their views throughout the Christian world.
www.monachos.net /patristics/christology/chalcedon_what_stake.shtml   (2438 words)

  
 Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture
Rodolph Yanney, MD        During the nineteen century and early in the twentieth, it was customary to speak of two main schools of biblical exegesis in the early Church, the Alexandrian and the Antiochene.
The NT canon was the fruit of the work in the School of Alexandria, and it was not without significance that the 27 acknowledged books of the NT were first sanctioned by St.
In the last decades of the fourth century and during the fifth century a vigorous reaction against allegorism was led by theologians in Antioch, mainly Diodore of Tarsus (d.c.
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 The 'Schools' of Alexandria and Antioch
Unlike the famed Catechetical School at Alexandria (which itself may not have been an academy in a proper sense -- the question is much debated), the 'schools' of Alexandria and Antioch are wholly homogenised historical readings of convergent manners of reflection in the ancient world.
The Alexandrine 'school' is seen most often as the older, dating back at least to Arius, and including such notable figures as the sainted bishop Athanasius of that city, as well as the anathematised Apollinarius.
As bishop of Alexandria and strongly influenced by the theology of his predecessor, Athanasius, the temptation is certainly to call him a member of the Alexandrian 'school'.
www.monachos.net /patristics/christology/two_schools.shtml   (1090 words)

  
 Great Theosophists--Ammonius Saccas (9 of 29)
Christianity asserted that the earth was flat, and against this theory was pitted that of Aristarchos of Samos, who had been a member of the Alexandrian School in 280 B.C., and had taught the sphericity of the earth as Pythagoras had taught it before him.
This School would serve two purposes: first, it would enable her to introduce Christianity into this hotbed of heresy; second, it would give the Church Fathers an opportunity to study the pagan doctrines, and thus give a greater appearance of authority to their Refutations.
At first it was a school for children only, located almost at the doors of the Old Museum, from which the majority of Christians, owing to their ignorance of science, art, and philosophy, had hitherto been debarred.
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 Ammonius (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The school founded by Horapollo, where after Hermeias joined it the two main courses of study were rhetoric and philosophy, was a hub of the ‘Hellenic’ pagan learning, religion and culture.
That the school could be a focus of hostile Christian attention had been made abundantly clear by the lynching of Hypatia at the hands of an Alexandrian mob in 415.
Ammonius was chiefly influential as the founder of the school of Aristotle-interpretation in Alexandria.
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 But Aren't Schools the Best Place to Learn?
I have observed the by-product of America's modern counterpart to the Alexandrian school.
Schooling will fill their brains with facts, enabling them to pass tests, but it will not teach them to relate to society.
The reality is that most homeschooling parents are following the current pop philosophy (of "school at home"), sacrificing the humanity of their children for the promise of academic security.
www.homeschooloasis.com /art_but_aren't_schls_best_mp.htm   (1807 words)

  
 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 260   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The term grammatica, in the scientific sense, included, in antiquity, all the philological disciplines, grammar proper, lexicography, prosody, the lower and higher criticism, antiquities, everything, in short, necessary to the understanding and explanation of grammata, or the treasures of literature, whether their form or their matter be in question.
It was the restoration of the text of the Homeric poems, and the explanation of their words and contents, that primarily exercised the wits of the scholars.
He was the founder of the celebrated school of the Aristarcheans, which continued to exist and to maintain an uninterrupted tradition, down to the first century of the imperial age.
www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0263.html   (761 words)

  
 The School of Alexandria - Origen - Ch 2 - Origen's Writings
Origen used the techniques he learned from Alexandrian literary study to refute heretical interpretations, to demonstrate to the simple the need for seeking a deeper meaning, and to provide the clues needed to reach the spiritual sense.
The Alexandrian's modesty is noted by a considerable number of critics.
Origen was dealing with questions which had been raised and discussed in the School before his time, and which were then admitted to be legitimate subjects for inquiry...
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 SECTION II : AFRICAN CHURCHES
This school was first kept by Pantaenus, whom Clement first assisted, and then succeeded, as Origen did him.* In this school baptism was first associated with a learned education.
In this school pupils were not baptized at their first admission into the academy, which is clear by the case of six martyrs, two of whom died unbaptized.
As the old pastors were removed by death, the new ones, and particularly those from the Alexandrian school, were for introducing the new doctrines and discipline, so that a mixture of Jewish, Gentile, and Christian modes, formed a code of laws for religious affairs.
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 Glossary of Terms
- School of Bible education in the early church, founded by Lucian in opposition to the excesses of the allegorical hermeneutics of the Alexandrian school of Philo, Origen.
Believed that the God of the O.T. was different from the God of the N.T. Taught that Jesus wasn't born of a woman.
From the Alexandrian school, believed in a very allegorical method of interpretation.
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 PHILADELPHIA SEMINAR ON CHRISTIAN ORIGINSVolume 16 (1978-79)
While this may not seem an obvious characteristic of school traditions, it is present in much of the parallel literature Bousset cites, and is noted by him in connection with the Pythagoreans (p.
The school of Plato, as well as those of Aristotle and of the Stoics, was housed in public buildings which were sometimes appropriated by the state, making a closed brotherhood with esoteric ideas rather difficult.
There is mention of the “course of Valentinus” in 56.1-5, which could be a school reference, The author himself seems to be director of an “in” group, as leader of a community, school, conventicle, or something.
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 science: The Beginnings of Science
The second Alexandrian school flourished in the first centuries of the Christian era, after Rome had become the leading power in the Mediterranean; it included Ptolemy (2d cent.
However, although many societies were quick to adopt the fruits of technology, they tended to discourage the development of science on the classical model, which is based on the unbiased interaction of theory and experiment.
In China scientific theories were largely subservient to the main schools of philosophy and theology, particularly those of Confucianism, Taoism, and, later, Buddhism.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0860975.html   (1249 words)

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