Selections from the Writings of Clement of Alexandria: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selections from the Writings of Clement of Alexandria, credited to Saint Clement of Alexandria; Rufus Jones, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Selections from the Writings of Clement of Alexandria by Saint Clement of Alexandria; Rufus Jones. Read in English by InTheDesert. On the whole, I do not know where we shall look for a purer and truer man than this Clemens of Alexandria. I should like to be able to tell you something of his countenance and of his manner, as well as to give you more particulars of his history. But the facts are few and unimportant which his modesty has made known to us, or which his successors have preserved. We must be content to make his acquaintance through the words which he has spoken. Judging from them, he seems to me that one of the old Fathers whom we should all have reverenced most as a teacher, and loved best as a friend. - Summary by F.D. Maurice

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selections from the Writings of Clement of Alexandria
• Author credits: Saint Clement of Alexandria; Rufus Jones
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:31:28

Catalogue topics

• theology
• Church Fathers
• quotations
• early church
• patristics
• theology -- early works to 1800
• compliations

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction — 20:20
2. 02 - The Story of the Pursuit of a Soul — The New Song — The Word Became Man — The Search for God — Like as a Mother-Bird — O Child, Thirst for Thy Father — Trust the Inborn Witness — Truth, the Medicine of Immortality — An Immortal Man is a Noble Hymn — Seek the Greatest of All Goods — 19:23
3. 03 - Translated into God's Commonwealth — We are the Cause of Our Own Condemnation — The Perennial Immortal Bloom of Gladness — Sin and Virtue — Virtue is a Conformed Will — The Simple Life — The Greatest of All Lessons—To Know Oneself — Growing Old in the Lord — The Fair Staff of Beneficence — 10:21
4. 04 - God Fulfills Himself in Many Ways — All are Illuminated by the Dawn of Light — The Cure of the Soul — A God Who is Near — Faith — Love and Goodness — The Body as the Soul's Inn — The Nature of God — The Gifts of God are not Fragile — The Only Lover of God — The Good Man — The True Athlete — We are All Open to His Glance — The Assemblage of the Saints — The Congregation is the True Altar — God Everywhere — Prayer and Its Purpose — The Endless Progress of the Soul — Nearer Than Breathing — The Life is an Affirmation — 41:24

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