ontological terms, or with the radical dualism between the intelligible and sensible realms which is implied in Clement’s thought? This has undoubtedly been the tendency in modern theology when it holds that God is related to our world only tangentially at mathematical points, so that His presence and acts within the cosmos can be spoken of only paradoxically, but that means that man’s knowledge of God cannot be grounded cognitively and objectively in God for it only touches the world of divine reality