Clement of Alexandria (the 1st great representative of the type.)
The Instructor…
Clement’s Christ is both the Christ of culture and the Christ above all culture.
Jesus Christ is the Word, the Reason of God; his reasoning in practical affairs is for Clement like all good, sound reasoning.
the the Christian ethic and etiquette of corresponds closely to the content of Stoic handbooks of morality current at the time.
A Christian, first in accordance with culure. …Sobreity in personal conduct is to be accompanied by honesty in economic dealings, and by obedience to political authority.
-- His Christ not against culture, but uses its best producst as instruments in his work of bestowing on men what they cannot achieve by their own efforts.
….He exhorts them to exert themselves in self-culture and intelectual training, in order that they may be prepared for a life in which they no longer care for themselves, their culture, or their wisdom.

Synthesis of the NT & the demands of life in the world in ethics..also philosophy and faith.
..He doesn't reinterpret Jesus & make him completely compatible with the systems of the day, But does not reject as worldly wisdom the philosophy of the Greeks.
-“says to use, but not to linger and spend time, with secular culture.

Clements attempt to combine appreciation of culture with loyalty to Christ was made at a time when the church was still outlawed.
It is more concerned with the culture of Christians than with the Christianization of Culture…