ABSTRACT
The Christianity of Clement of Rome, or, to be more exact, the Roman Christianity, which is reflected in the epistle which Clement wrote about 96 to the church at Corinth in the name of that at Rome shows certain trays which are common to the epistle of James and the Didache. The pre-catholicism imbued with the Roman legalistic spirit has a very marked moralising character and approximates closely to Judaism. Clement has a clear idea of the part played by Christ in the realisation of salvation, but he uses phrases which he has borrowed from a tradition which means nothing to him except in a superficial kind of way. Although it can be maintained without being ridiculous that James’ epistle may be a Jewish writing and certainly that some of its sources are Jewish, the same hypothesis cannot be put forward for the epistle of Clement of Rome.
