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vi PREFACE then Regius Professor of Divinity and now Dean of Christ Church, and of Dr. R. Walzer, lecturer in Arabic and Greek philosophy at the University of Oxford. Both of them were
C extremely generous in giving me suggestions and advice which greatly assisted me during my research work and also in taking
ABBREVIATIONS pains to correct my still clumsy English style. To both of them I am extremely indebted and can safely maintain that without EDITIONS AND T their help my work would not be such as it is at present. s Professor Chadwick was also so kind as to read through the INTRODUCTION typescript twice before it was handed over to the Press.
I. CLEMENT'S VIEW My best thanks are due to the Delegates of the Oxford UniVALUE OF GRE versity Press for accepting this book for publication as well as IL. ETHICS to its readers, for their most careful correction of the proofs and | for their suggestions which contributed to improve my English
| Ill. PISTIS, GNOSIS, C in several points. My colleague and friend Mons. P. Canart, THEOLOGY Scriptor at the Vatican Library, also helped me in the correc1. The Doctrine of Pi tion of the proofs.
2. The Idea of Gnosis Si: L.
3. The Origin of the 4. The Doctrine of t Rome, March 1971 } 5. The Doctrine of t :
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