patristic literature is more stimulating to the modern reader than [Clement’s] great trilogy of graduated instruction in the Christian life … Clement’s conception of Christianity, in its relation to the whole field of human thought, is one which has an especial value for our own times … and promises to be increasingly useful in the present century.’4 The Catholic attitude, which expects not only intellectual vigor and richness of culture, but also exact adherence to the truth, is more hesitant. While