Clementine literature is the name given to the religious romance which purports to contain a record made by one Clement of discourses involving the Apostle Peter, together with an account of the circumstances under which Clement came to be Peter's travelling companion, and of other details of Clement's family history.
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Clementine literature begins by detailing his religious questionings, his doubts about immortality, his love for celibacy, and so on.
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Clementine literature comes ashore on the island of Arados where Peter later recognizes her on the basis of Clement's account.
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Clementine literature was induced many years ago to admit that Simon Magus was a real personage, though he persists that in the Clementines he is meant for St Paul.
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Clementine literature's view is that H is the work of an Aramaean Christian after 325 and earlier than 411.
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Clementine literature is a creature, the first-born of all creation and the Image of God.
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Clementine literature was an Arian, and Arianism had its home in the civil diocese of the Orient.
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Clementine literature uses the Praeparatio Evangelica of Eusebius of Caesarea.
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Clementine literature wrote for the heathens of his day, and observed the stiff and often merely formal disciplina arcani which the 4th century enforced.
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Clementine literature defends the Old Testament against the school of Porphyry, and when he declares it to be interpolated, he is using Porphyry's own higher criticism.
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