At the beginning , the name referred to the Jewish philosophy of Philo , who lived in
Alexandria
in the first century , and interpreted the Bible by applying the methods of Platon . But later , the name was applied to the school of philosophy of the Christian thinkers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries whose ideas had a powerful influence on the whole theology of the Early Church . One of its main representatives was Clement of Alexandria , the founder of the Alexandrian Church .
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