Brill The So-Called Eighth Stromateus by Clement of Alexandria: Early Christian reception of Greek scientific methodology: 144 (Philosophia Antiqua, 144)

The so-called eighth Stromateus is a series of excerpts on inquiry, demonstration, scepticism, and causal theory, made or adopted by Clement of Alexandria. This book provides a translation and commentary of the text and a study of its origin and purpose. Review "this is a truly excellent monograph, which should bring an obscure text to the greater readership it deserves. Havrda's important work shows how vital it is for those interested in ancient medicine to examine Christian texts as well, which often contain testimony of philosophical and scientific theory otherwise lost." - Dawn LaValle Norman, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.09.38 "Havrda's study is a work of consummate erudition, published at an apposite moment for patristics, ancient philosophy, and potentially early imperial literary scholarship---though his own weight of attention and interest is clearly pointed toward the philosophical tradition." - Jane Heath, University of Durham, in: The Expository Times 129(10) "Matyás Havrda [...] hat ein gehaltvolles Buch vorgelegt, das nicht nur für Studien zu Clemens von Alexandrien wichtig sein wird, sondern darüber hinaus für die Erforschung der Philosophie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte des 2. und 3. Jh.s insgesamt von Belang ist. [...] Der V[erfasser] hat damit ein sehr wertvolles Arbeitsintrument bereitgestellt, das allen, die mit dieser Materie zu tun haben, hoch willkommen sein wird." - Dietmar Wyrwa, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 145 (2020) 1/2 About the Author Matyás Havrda, Ph.D. (2000), Charles University Prague, is a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has published studies on Clement of Alexandria and Galen and edited the collection of essays The Seventh Book of The Stromateis (Brill, 2012).