Catechetical School of Alexandria

Japanese: アレクサンドリア教校 - アレクサンドリアきょうこう（英語表記）Catechetical School of Alexandria

A Christian educational institution in Alexandria in the 2nd to 4th centuries. At first it was a simple catechesis for those hoping to be baptized, but because Alexandria was generally a place of learning, and Christians also had a strong tendency to study catechesis academically, it is thought that the institution eventually took on the substance of a college, with the goal of imparting Christianity academically as a means of completing culture, rather than providing practical instruction in religious life. Geometry, physiology, astronomy, philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), and ethics were taught before the study of theology, and it became the base of the Alexandrian school. Clement and Origen were representative figures, and the issue of integrating Greek philosophy and Christianity was also addressed at this school early on. However, this later development as a college is sometimes distinguished from the earlier catechesis, and only the latter is considered to be the Alexandrian School.

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Japanese:

2～4世紀のアレクサンドリアにおけるキリスト教の教育機関。初めは受洗希望者のための簡単な教理教授機関であったが，アレクサンドリアは一般に学問が盛んで，キリスト教信者の間にも学問的に教理を研究しようとする傾向が強かったため，やがて信仰生活の実践的指導というより教養の完成としてのキリスト教の学問的伝授を目的として学院としての内実がそなわっていったと考えられ，神学の研究の前に幾何学，生理学，天文学，哲学 (特にプラトン，アリストテレス) ，倫理学が教えられて，これがアレクサンドリア学派の拠点となった。クレメンス，オリゲネスがその代表者でギリシア哲学とキリスト教との総合の問題もこの教校でいちはやく取上げられた。しかしこの後の学院としての発展を初期の教理教育機関と区別し，後者のみがアレクサンドリア教校とされることもある。

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