Clemens Scholten

Clemens Scholten (* 1955 ) is a German Catholic church historian .

Life

The great contemporary authority over the works of the Christian Alexandrian philosopher Johannes Philoponos from the 6th century teaches ancient church history and patrology at the University of Cologne . Earlier publications were devoted to Nag Hammadi and the Alexandrian Catechetical School. Scholten recently published a work by Theodoret .

Fonts (selection)

• Martyrdom and Sophia myth in Gnosticism based on the texts of Nag Hammadi (= yearbook for antiquity and Christianity . Supplementary volume 14). Aschendorff, Münster 1987, ISBN 3-402-08519-4 (also dissertation, Bonn 1985).
• Ancient natural philosophy and Christian cosmology in the book "De opificio mundi" by Johannes Philoponos (= Patristic texts and studies . Volume 45). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1996, ISBN 3-11-014834-X (also habilitation thesis, Bonn 1994).
• as editor with Georg Schöllgen : Stimuli. Exegesis and its hermeneutics in antiquity and Christianity, Festschrift for Ernst Dassmann (= yearbook for antiquity and Christianity , supplementary volume 23). Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 1996, ISBN 3-402-08107-5 .
• as editor: Johannes Philoponos: De opificio mundi [Greek / German] = About the creation of the world (= Fontes Christiani . Volume 23). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna / Barcelona / Rome / New York 1997.
  • Part 1, ISBN 3-451-23901-9 .
  • Part 2, ISBN 3-451-23902-7 .
  • Part 3, ISBN 3-451-23903-5 .
• as editor: Johannes Philoponos: De aeternitate mundi (= Fontes Christiani . Volume 64). Brepols, Turnhout.
  • Part 1, 2009, ISBN 978-2-503-51936-4 .
  • Part 2, 2009, ISBN 978-2-503-51938-8 .
  • Part 3, 2011, ISBN 2-503-51939-3 .
  • Part 4, 2011, ISBN 2-503-51941-5 .
  • Part 5, 2011, ISBN 2-503-53311-6 .