"Gnosis, Theophany, Theosis" comprises three case studies of Clement's interaction with the heterogeneous traditions integral to his Alexandrian background: Basilidean and Valentinian metaphysics of the Christ-event; Philo's Scripture exegesis; and Hellenistic ethical theory based on Aristotle's concept of "telos." This book focuses on the three respective representative objects of interpretation that Clement shared with those traditions, namely: the rite of Christian initiation; Scripture narratives of primordial creation and God's revelation to Abram; and the Middle Platonic idea of human "telos" as -assimilation to God.- By going back to the respective interpretations of these objects by those traditions, and then forth to Clement's appropriation of those interpretations, "Gnosis, Theophany, Theosis" presents him as a creative theologian and lays bare the inner structure of his synthesis."