HSM · Church Fathers
Clement of Rome
His letter calls a divided community toward humility, peace, and orderly ministry.
Profile
- Role
- Apostolic witness
- Approximate period
- Active late 1st century
- Region
- Rome; addressed Corinth
- Major writings
- 1 Clement (traditionally attributed)
Relationship to Scripture
Uses Israel’s Scriptures as shared moral instruction and recalls Paul’s letter to Corinth.
An educational profile. Consult the identified works and their editorial introductions before attributing quotations or claiming agreement across early Christian writers.
Sources and Further Investigation
CCEL — Early Church Fathers collections
A collection for further investigation; this profile does not claim that every listed work appears in it.