Background
Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan was born on December 17, 1923 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Jaroslav Jan and Anna (Buzek) Pelikan.
(The great early church and Luther scholar, Dr. Jaroslav P...)
The great early church and Luther scholar, Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan, in this one of his earliest published works, offers in this volume an analysis of the relationship between philosophical thought and Lutheran theology since the time of the Reformation.
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(Luther the Expositor is an introduction to Luther's writi...)
Luther the Expositor is an introduction to Luther's writings dealing with his exegetical principles and practices, illustrated by a case study of texts on the Lord's Supper. It is an overview of Luther's theology underlining the importance of exegesis in the life and thought of the church.
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( In this five-volume opus—now available in its entirety ...)
In this five-volume opus—now available in its entirety in paperback—Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth. "Pelikan's The Christian Tradition [is] a series for which they must have coined words like 'magisterial'."—Martin Marty, Commonweal
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( "A magnificent history of doctrine."—New York Review of...)
"A magnificent history of doctrine."—New York Review of Books "In this volume Jaroslav Pelikan continues the splendid work he has done thus far in his projected five-volume history of the development of Christian doctrine, defined as 'what the Church believes, teaches, and confesses on the basis of the word of God.' The entire work will become an indispensable resource not only for the history of doctrine but also for its reformulation today. Copious documentation in the margins and careful indexing add to its immense usefulness."—E. Glenn Hinson, Christian Century "This book is based on a most meticulous examination of medieval authorities and the growth of medieval theology is essentially told in their own words. What is more important, however, then the astounding number of primary sources the author has consulted or his sovereign familiarity with modern studies on his subject, is his ability to discern form and direction in the bewildering growth of medieval Christian doctrine, and, by thoughtful emphasis and selection, to show the pattern of that development in a lucid and persuasive narrative. No one interested in the history of Christianity or theology and no medievalist, whatever the field of specialization, will be able to ignore this magnificent synthesis."—Bernhard W. Scholz, History "The series is obviously the indispensable text for graduate theological study in the development of doctrine, and an important reference for scholars of religious and intellectual history as well. . . . Professor Pelikan's series marks a significant departure, and in him we have at last a master teacher."—Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Commonweal
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( The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Wester...)
The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the "iron curtain" of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences combined to isolate the two cultures from each other. Except for such episodes as the schism between East and West or the Crusades, the development of non-Western Christendom has been largely ignored by church historians. In The Spirit of Eastern Christendom, Jaroslav Pelikan explains the divisions between Eastern and Western Christendom, and identifies and describes the development of the distinctive forms taken by Christian doctrine in its Greek, Syriac, and early Slavic expression. "It is a pleasure to salute this masterpiece of exposition. . . . The book flows like a great river, slipping easily past landscapes of the utmost diversity—the great Christological controversies of the seventh century, the debate on icons in the eighth and ninth, attitudes to Jews, to Muslims, to the dualistic heresies of the high Middle Ages, to the post-Reformation churches of Western Europe. . . . His book succeeds in being a study of the Eastern Christian religion as a whole."—Peter Brown and Sabine MacCormack, New York Review of Books "The second volume of Professor Pelikan's monumental work on The Christian Tradition is the most comprehensive historical treatment of Eastern Christian thought from 600 to 1700, written in recent years. . . . Pelikan's reinterpretation is a major scholarly and ecumenical event."—John Meyendorff "Displays the same mastery of ancient and modern theological literature, the same penetrating analytical clarity and balanced presentation of conflicting contentions, that made its predecessor such an intellectual treat."—Virgina Quarterly Review
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( Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of ...)
Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century in its particular concerns with ecumenism. The modern period in the history of Christian doctrine, Pelikan demonstrates, may be defined as the time when doctrines that had been assumed more than debated for most of Christian history were themselves called into question: the idea of revelation, the uniqueness of Christ, the authority of Scripture, the expectation of life after death, even the very transcendence of God.
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( This penultimate volume in Pelikan's acclaimed history ...)
This penultimate volume in Pelikan's acclaimed history of Christian doctrine—winner with Volume 3 of the Medieval Academy's prestigious Haskins Medal—encompasses the Reformation and the developments that led to it. "Only in America, and in this case from a Lutheran scholar, could we expect an examination so lacking in parti pris, a survey so perceptive, so free—and, one must say, the result of so much immense labor, so rewardingly presented."—John M. Todd, New York Times Book Review "Never wasting a word or losing a plot line, Pelikan builds on an array of sources that few in our era have the linguistic skill, genius or ambition to master."—Martin E. Marty, America "The use of both primary materials and secondary sources is impressive, and yet it is not too formidable for the intelligent layman."—William S. Barker, Eternity
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( Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of ...)
Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century in its particular concerns with ecumenism. The modern period in the history of Christian doctrine, Pelikan demonstrates, may be defined as the time when doctrines that had been assumed more than debated for most of Christian history were themselves called into question: the idea of revelation, the uniqueness of Christ, the authority of Scripture, the expectation of life after death, even the very transcendence of God.
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( Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of ...)
Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century in its particular concerns with ecumenism. The modern period in the history of Christian doctrine, Pelikan demonstrates, may be defined as the time when doctrines that had been assumed more than debated for most of Christian history were themselves called into question: the idea of revelation, the uniqueness of Christ, the authority of Scripture, the expectation of life after death, even the very transcendence of God. "Knowledge of the immense intellectual effort invested in the construction of the edifice of Christian doctrine by the best minds of each successive generation is worth having. And there can hardly be a more lucid, readable and genial guide to it than this marvellous work."—Economist "This volume, like the series which it brings to a triumphant conclusion, may be unreservedly recommended as the best one-stop introduction currently available to its subject."—Alister E. McGrath, Times Higher Education Supplement "Professor Pelikan's series marks a significant departure, and in him we have at last a master teacher."—Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Commonweal "Pelikan's book marks not only the end of a dazzling scholarly effort but the end of an era as well. There is reason to suppose that nothing quite like it will be tried again."—Harvey Cox, Washington Post Book World
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(In this carefully reasoned book, noted historian and theo...)
In this carefully reasoned book, noted historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan offers a moving and spirited defense of the importance of tradition.'A soul-stirring self-analysis, no less than a distillation of the life-work of the living historian best qualified to provide solutions to those 'Tradition versus Bible-Only' controversies that have plagued Christianity since the Reformation.'--L. K. Shook, Canadian Catholic Review
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(A discussion about how each age created Jesus in its own ...)
A discussion about how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and teachings the answers to fundamental questions of human life and destiny. It studies the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages, suggesting that the depictions are key to understanding each era.
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(This volume is adapted from Jaroslav Pelikan's classic wo...)
This volume is adapted from Jaroslav Pelikan's classic work "Jesus Through the Centuries". Pelikan has condensed the original text and enhanced the book with 150 illustrations, most in colour, that give a further dimension to his thoughts. His commentary that accompanies the illustrations provides information on the art, architecture, individuals, and events that Jesus has inspired over the ages. In this book, Pelikan discusses how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and reaching the answers to fundamental questions of human existence and destiny. Studying the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages - from rabbi in the 1st century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the 19th and 20th centuries - Pelikan suggests that the way a particular age depicted Jesus is a key to understanding that era.
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(This remarkable account by an award-winning historian det...)
This remarkable account by an award-winning historian details the responses to the fall of Rome by the church fathers, who set the pattern for interpreting this momentous event for all succeeding centuries. "To speak about the decline and fall of the Roman empire as 'the social triumph of the ancient church' is to look at the events associated with that 'memorable revolution' . . . through the eyes of the victors" writes the author. "The thoroughness of the victors has often seen to it that there remains no other way for us to view those events. Not only are we-for this period as for so many others throughout most of human history-denied access to the mind of the common people as they watched this history in the making, such that we are forced to depend on the documents provided by various of the elites of the fourth and fifth centuries; but among the documents of those elites, only some have been permitted to survive" Jerome, Christian humanist and translator of the Bible into Latin, represents an apocalyptic view of the crisis. Eusebius, court theologian and founder of church history, saw the fall of Rome as the sign of a new order, the "Christian Empire" And Augustine, fountainhead of much of Western thought during the millennium that followed, used it as the basis for his City of God. The unifying theme in this historical panorama is the final revisionist view of the fall by its greatest historian, Edward Gibbon. All of these interpretations of the fall of Rome continue to live today and deeply influence our understanding of Western culture.
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(Endorsements: ""This is the ultimate bedside book. Replet...)
Endorsements: ""This is the ultimate bedside book. Replete with sinuous, compact discussions of first and last things--sin, faith, grace, and John Henry Newman--it reflects Jaroslav Pelikan's lifelong commitment to what he calls 'the great new fact of Christianity' . . . This book works like a tuning fork for the mind. With it, the harmony of Pelikan's thought and life has itself become part of the great Christian tradition."" --Christian Science Monitor ""This is a rewarding and exciting book from beginning to end. It shows the reflection of a master of his work, where the work continually reveals the author's enjoyment, both exemplifying and satisfying Horatio's utile dulci. Packed with knowledge and insight, it informs, stimulates, and delights. It also corrects, or at least reproves, some vulgar errors . . . A valuable book."" --Roland M. Frye ""I found Pelikan's thinking fascinating, elegant, informative, scholarly, and deeply personal and attractive . . . There is always some insight to gain. [Pelikan's book] provides a course in nearly the whole of Christian faith and history--in terms of just one person's journey."" --Robert B. Coote, Pacific Theological Review ""Jaroslav Pelikan ranged so widely in his exploration of historic Christian traditions, and his work probed so deeply, that it is a real boon to see Wipf and Stock bringing some of his books back into print. They were excellent reading when they first appeared; they remain excellent reading today."" --Mark A. Noll, McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
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( In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict ...)
In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the Church in 753 under his son, Constantine V. If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art--and of the Christian church, at least in the East--would have been altered. Iconoclasm was defeated--by Byzantine politics, by popular revolts, by monastic piety, and, most fundamentally of all, by theology, just as it had been theology that the opponents of images had used to justify their actions. Analyzing an intriguing chapter in the history of ideas, the renowned scholar Jaroslav Pelikan shows how a faith that began by attacking the worship of images ended first in permitting and then in commanding it. Pelikan charts the theological defense of icons during the Iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries, whose high point came in A.D. 787, when the Second Council of Nicaea restored the cult of images in the church. He demonstrates how the dogmas of the Trinity and the Incarnation eventually provided the basic rationale for images: because the invisible God had become human and therefore personally visible in Jesus Christ, it became permissible to make images of that Image. And because not only the human nature of Christ, but that of his Mother had been transformed by the Incarnation, she, too, could be "iconized," together with all the other saints and angels. The iconographic "text" of the book is provided by one of the very few surviving icons from the period before Iconoclasm, the Egyptian tapestry Icon of the Virgin now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Other icons serve to illustrate the theological argument, just as the theological argument serves to explain the icons. In a new foreword, Judith Herrin discusses the enduring importance of the book, provides a brief biography of Pelikan, and discusses how later scholars have built on his work.
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(University education has been the subject of vigorous deb...)
University education has been the subject of vigorous debate since its advent. In this book the author reflects on the character and aims of the university, assessing its guiding principles, its practical functions and its role in society.
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(Subtitled `The metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the C...)
Subtitled `The metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism' this book examines the theological thought of the `Cappadocians'; Gregory of Nazianus, Basil of Cesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and the shadowy Macrina, sister of the last two. Pelikan argues that the `accident' of the New Testament being first written in Greek determined much of the philosophical complexion it has since acquired, and that the fourth century historical figures discussed played a major part in uniting Classical and Christian traditions. The book is based on the 1992 and 1993 Gifford lectures delivered at the University of Aberdeen.
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(Reflecting on Goethe's statement that he was a pantheist ...)
Reflecting on Goethe's statement that he was a pantheist in science, a polytheist in art and a monotheist in ethics, Pelikan analyzes Goethe's character Faust and his development as a theologian. Pelikan is the author of The Christian Tradition and Through the Centuries.
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(Mary Through the Centuries : Her Place in the History of ...)
Mary Through the Centuries : Her Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan. Yale University Press,1996
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(This volume is adapted from Jaroslav Pelikan's classic wo...)
This volume is adapted from Jaroslav Pelikan's classic work "Jesus Through the Centuries". Pelikan has condensed the original text and enhanced the book with 150 illustrations, most in colour, that give a further dimension to his thoughts. His commentary that accompanies the illustrations provides information on the art, architecture, individuals, and events that Jesus has inspired over the ages. In this book, Pelikan discusses how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and reaching the answers to fundamental questions of human existence and destiny. Studying the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages - from rabbi in the 1st century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the 19th and 20th centuries - Pelikan suggests that the way a particular age depicted Jesus is a key to understanding that era.
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(Of the many themes that classical Antiquity and early Chr...)
Of the many themes that classical Antiquity and early Christianity had in common, for all their profound diffrerences, none was more influential than their love of language. It was the Greek asnd Roman rhetorical theorists who called the attention of later generations to the importance of speech and language. Likewise, when the author of the Fourth Gospel needed a comprehensive metaphor to describe the eternal significance of Jesus Christ, he turned to speech, calling him the Logos, the Word And Reason Of God, through whom the universe was made and by whom it was upheld. What would happen when these two systems of interpreting persuasive language collided - and yet in some sense converged? To answer that question, this book examines three interpretations of the most universally acknowledged piece of rhetoric in the history of the west, the Sermon on The Mount, from the latin and Catholic tradition (St.Augustine), and the Reformation and Protestant tradition (Martin Luther). Each is acknowledged in his tradition as a prince of the pulpit. Togethor and yet seperately, they illuminate both the sermon and the speaker for anyone who still takes the challenge of the faith - and of language - seriously.
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(Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of "G...)
Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of "Great Code," but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation. Jaroslav Pelikan compares the methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the Constitution-the Christian Church and the Supreme Court, respectively-have approached the necessity of interpreting, and reinterpreting, their important texts. In spite of obvious differences, both texts require close, word-by-word exegesis, an awareness of opinions that have gone before, and a willingness to ask new questions of old codes, Pelikan observes. He probes for answers to the question of what makes something authentically "constitutional" or "biblical," and he demonstrates how an understanding of either biblical interpretation or constitutional interpretation can illuminate the other in important ways.
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(More than 60 essays by such religious thinkers as F.M. Do...)
More than 60 essays by such religious thinkers as F.M. Dostoyevsky, Edward Gibbon, Friedich Nietzsche, Karl Barth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Mahatma Gandhi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Joseph Kitagawa, and Martin Luther King.
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(More than 60 essays by such religious thinkers as F.M. Do...)
More than 60 essays by such religious thinkers as F.M. Dostoyevsky, Edward Gibbon, Friedich Nietzsche, Karl Barth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Mahatma Gandhi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Joseph Kitagawa, and Martin Luther King.
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(These five chapters, originally delivered as the Laidlaw ...)
These five chapters, originally delivered as the Laidlaw Lectures at Knox College, Toronto, September, 1959, examine some of the forms that this pessimism about life and optimism about God took during the second and third centuries.
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(Religious Perspectives represents a quest for the redisco...)
Religious Perspectives represents a quest for the rediscovery of man. It constitutes an effort to define man's search for the essence of being in order that he may have a knowledge of goals. It is an endeavor to show that there is no possibility of achieving an understanding of man's total nature on the basis of phenomena known by the analytical method alone. It hopes to point to the false antimony between revelation and reason, faith and knowledge, grace and nature, courage and anxiety. Mathematics, physics, philosophy, biology, and religion, in spite of their almost complete independence, have begun to sense their interrelatedness and to become aware of that mode of cognition which teaches that "the light is not without but within me, and I myself am the light."
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(5-Volume Set by a renowned theologian of Christian History.)
5-Volume Set by a renowned theologian of Christian History.
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( The problem of change has assumed great prominence in m...)
The problem of change has assumed great prominence in much of the current ferment in theology, and many of the issues in question can best be interpreted as relating to the validity and limits of doctrinal development. The questions cannot be faced constructively, however, until the development of doctrine has been clearly charted, a historical as well as a theological assignment. In this unique introductory survey—more modest in scope but more scholarly in method than Cardinal Newman’s great programmatic essay of 1845—Mr. Pelikan presents three case histories of the particular doctrines that have crucial points of division among Christians. His cogent analyses of Cyprian on Original Sin, Athanasius on the Virgin Mary, and Hilary on the Holy Spirit demonstrate the interaction between the sacramental life of the Church and the intellectual work of the theologian that consistently marked the development of doctrine by the early Fathers. Thus they clarify some central aspects of the continuing theological and ecumenical debates. Mr. Pelikan, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University, is the author of many books and articles, including a forthcoming full-scale history of the development of doctrine.
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( In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict ...)
In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the Church in 753 under his son, Constantine V. If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art--and of the Christian church, at least in the East--would have been altered. Iconoclasm was defeated--by Byzantine politics, by popular revolts, by monastic piety, and, most fundamentally of all, by theology, just as it had been theology that the opponents of images had used to justify their actions. Analyzing an intriguing chapter in the history of ideas, the renowned scholar Jaroslav Pelikan shows how a faith that began by attacking the worship of images ended first in permitting and then in commanding it. Pelikan charts the theological defense of icons during the Iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries, whose high point came in A.D. 787, when the Second Council of Nicaea restored the cult of images in the church. He demonstrates how the dogmas of the Trinity and the Incarnation eventually provided the basic rationale for images: because the invisible God had become human and therefore personally visible in Jesus Christ, it became permissible to make images of that Image. And because not only the human nature of Christ, but that of his Mother had been transformed by the Incarnation, she, too, could be "iconized," together with all the other saints and angels. The iconographic "text" of the book is provided by one of the very few surviving icons from the period before Iconoclasm, the Egyptian tapestry Icon of the Virgin now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Other icons serve to illustrate the theological argument, just as the theological argument serves to explain the icons.
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(Religious Perspectives represents a quest for the redisco...)
Religious Perspectives represents a quest for the rediscovery of man. It constitutes an effort to define man's search for the essence of being in order that he may have a knowledge of goals. It is an endeavor to show that there is no possibility of achieving an understanding of man's total nature on the basis of phenomena known by the analytical method alone. It hopes to point to the false antimony between revelation and reason, faith and knowledge, grace and nature, courage and anxiety. Mathematics, physics, philosophy, biology, and religion, in spite of their almost complete independence, have begun to sense their interrelatedness and to become aware of that mode of cognition which teaches that "the light is not without but within me, and I myself am the light."
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(This work establishes the significance of the thought of ...)
This work establishes the significance of the thought of Puritan William Ames (1576-1633) in deepening and systematizing established Reformation teaching on Christian doctrine and life in a way that ensured its subsequent development through the early modern period and beyond. This book argues that William Ames built on existing, but as yet un-developed and un-codified, thought of Reformed and Puritan forerunners to construct an early theological system on the twin pillars of covenant theology and piety. In this exciting new work, van Vliet expounds Ames' covenantal thinking and demonstrates that Ames relocates moral theology from the medieval structures of early, virtue-based, Puritanism, to a Reformed framework anchored in the Decalogue. This is followed by a demonstration of the confluence of Ames' concern for Christian living with similar concerns of seventeenth-century Reformed pastors and thinkers in the Dutch Republic of the early modern period's post-Reformation world (Nadere Reformatie), and his influence on early-American Jonathan Edwards-both directly and through Petrus van Maastricht. In this persuasive argument, van Vliet radically corrects Amesian historiography which has minimized his influence.
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( The problem of change has assumed great prominence in m...)
The problem of change has assumed great prominence in much of the current ferment in theology, and many of the issues in question can best be interpreted as relating to the validity and limits of doctrinal development. The questions cannot be faced constructively, however, until the development of doctrine has been clearly charted, a historical as well as a theological assignment. In this unique introductory survey—more modest in scope but more scholarly in method than Cardinal Newman’s great programmatic essay of 1845—Mr. Pelikan presents three case histories of the particular doctrines that have crucial points of division among Christians. His cogent analyses of Cyprian on Original Sin, Athanasius on the Virgin Mary, and Hilary on the Holy Spirit demonstrate the interaction between the sacramental life of the Church and the intellectual work of the theologian that consistently marked the development of doctrine by the early Fathers. Thus they clarify some central aspects of the continuing theological and ecumenical debates. Mr. Pelikan, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University, is the author of many books and articles, including a forthcoming full-scale history of the development of doctrine.
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( Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of ...)
Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century in its particular concerns with ecumenism. The modern period in the history of Christian doctrine, Pelikan demonstrates, may be defined as the time when doctrines that had been assumed more than debated for most of Christian history were themselves called into question: the idea of revelation, the uniqueness of Christ, the authority of Scripture, the expectation of life after death, even the very transcendence of God. "Knowledge of the immense intellectual effort invested in the construction of the edifice of Christian doctrine by the best minds of each successive generation is worth having. And there can hardly be a more lucid, readable and genial guide to it than this marvellous work."—Economist "This volume, like the series which it brings to a triumphant conclusion, may be unreservedly recommended as the best one-stop introduction currently available to its subject."—Alister E. McGrath, Times Higher Education Supplement "Professor Pelikan's series marks a significant departure, and in him we have at last a master teacher."—Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Commonweal "Pelikan's book marks not only the end of a dazzling scholarly effort but the end of an era as well. There is reason to suppose that nothing quite like it will be tried again."—Harvey Cox, Washington Post Book World
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(This unique and persuasive work establishes the significa...)
This unique and persuasive work establishes the significance of the thought of Puritan William Ames (1576-1633) in deepening and systematizing established Reformation teaching on Christian doctrine and life in a way that ensured its subsequent development through the early modern period and beyond.
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(Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons by Pelikan, J...)
Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons by Pelikan, Jaroslav [Princeton U...
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Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan was born on December 17, 1923 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Jaroslav Jan and Anna (Buzek) Pelikan.
Graduate summa cum laude, Concordia Junior College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1942. Bachelor's Degree, Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1946.
Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1961. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Concordia College, Moorehead, Minnesota, 1960. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Concordia Seminary, 1967.
Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1987. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1988. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Victoria University, Toronto, 1989.
Doctor of Divinity (honorary), University Aberdeen, Scotland, 1995. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Wittenberg University, 1960. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Wheeling College, 1966.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Gettysburg College, 1967. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Pacific Lutheran University, 1967. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Wabash College, 1988.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary, 1991. HHD (honorary), Providence College, 1966. HHD (honorary), Moravian College, 1986.
HHD (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary, 1991. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Keuka College, 1967. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Notre Dame, 1979.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Harvard University, 1998. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Regina, 1998. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Valparaiso University, 1966.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rockhurst College, 1967. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Albertus Magnus College, 1973. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Coe College, 1976.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Catholic University America, 1977. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), St. Mary's College, 1978. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), St. Anselm College, 1983.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Nebraska-Omaha, 1984. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Tulane University, 1986. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Assumption College, 1986.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), LaSalle University, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Carthage College, 1991. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Chicago, 1991.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Southern Methodist University, 1992. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Albany, 1993. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Florida International University, 1997.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 2004. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), St. Tikhan's Orth. Seminary, 2004; Doctor of Theology (honorary), University Hamburg, 1971.
Doctor of Theology (honorary), St. Olaf College, 1972. Doctor of Theology (honorary), Charles University, Prague, 1999. STD, Dickinson College, 1986.
Doctor of Science in History, Comenius University, Bratislava, 1992. Doctor of Science (honorary), Loyola University, Chicago, 1995.
Faculty Valparaiso (Indiana) University, 1946-1949, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 1949-1953, University Chicago, 1953-1962. Titus Street professor ecclesiastical history Yale University, 1962-1972, Sterling professor history, 1972-1996, William Clyde DeVane lecturer, 1984-1986, director division humanities, 1974-1975, chairman Medieval studies, 1974-1975, 78-80, dean Graduate School, 1973-1978. Joseph chair Boston College, 1996-1997.
Professor Annenberg School University Pennsylvania, 1998-2001. Distinguished Visiting Scholar Library. Congress, Washington, 2001—2002.
Visiting professor Boston College, 1996-1997, Annenberg School Communications, University Pennsylvania, 1998-2006. Gray lecturer Duke University, 1960, Ingersoll lecturer Harvard University, 1963, Gauss lecturer Princeton University, 1980, Jefferson lecturer National Endowment of the Humanities, 1983, Richard lecturer University Virginia, 1984, Rauschenbusch lectre. Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 1984, Gilson lecturer University Toronto, 1985, 98, Hale lecturer Seabury-Western Seminary, 1986, Mead-Swing lecturer Oberlin College, 1986, Gross lecturer Rutgers University, 1989.
Advisory board Center Theological Inquiry, 1984-1990. Member council The Smithsonian Institution, 1984-1990. United States chairman United States Czechoslovak Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences, 1987-1992.
Scholarly director institutions of democracy project Annenberg Found Trust, Sunnylands, 2002-2006.
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Author: From Luther to Kierkegaard, 1950, Fools for Christ, 1955, The Riddle of Roman Catholicism, 1959 (Abingdon award 1959), Luther the Expositor, 1959, The Shape of Death, 1961, The Light of the World, 1962, Obedient Rebels, 1964, The Finality of Jesus Christ in an Age of Universal History, 1965, The Christian Intellectual, 1966, Spirit Versus Structure, 1968, Development of Doctrine, 1969, Historical Theology, 1971, The Christian Tradition, 5 vols., 1971-1989, Scholarship and Its Survival, 1983, The Vindication of Tradition, 1984, Jesus Through the Centuries, 1985, The Mystery of Continuity, 1986, Bach Among the Theologians, 1986, The Excellent Empire, 1987, The Melody of Theology, 1988, Confessor Between East and West, 1990, Imago Dei, 1990, Eternal Feminines, 1990, The Idea of the University: A Reexamination, 1992, Christianity and Classical Culture, 1993, Faust the Theologian, 1995, The Reformation of the Bible/ The Bible of the Reformation, 1996, Mary through the Centuries, 1996, The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries, 1997, What Has Athens to do with Jerusalem?, 1997, Divine Rhetoric, 2001, Credo, 2003, Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution, 2004. Editor, translator: Luther's Works, 22 vols., 1955-1971, The Book of Concord, 1959. Editor: Makers of Modern Theology, 5 vols., 1966-1968, The Preaching of Chrysostom, 1967, Interpreters of Luther, 1968, Twentieth-Century Theology in the Making, 3 vols., 1969-1970, The Preaching of Augustine, 1973, The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought, 1991, Sacred Writings, 7 vols., 1992, Whose Bible is It?, 2005. (with Valerie Hotchkiss) Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition, 3 vols., 2003. Member editorial board Collected Works of Erasmus, Classics of Western Spirituality, Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon, Emerson's Nature, 1986, The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought, 1990. Departmental editor Encyclopedia Britannica, 1958-1969.Administrative board Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Chairman publications committee Yale University Press, 1979-1990, 922006, vice president board governors, 1988-2006. Contributor articles to professional journals.
President 4th International Congress for Luther Research, 1971, New England Congress on Graduate Education, 1976-1977. Fellow Medieval Academy American (councillor, Haskins medal 1985). Member American History Association, American Society Church History (president 1965, Achievement award 1998), International Congress Luther Research (president 1971), American Academy Arts and Sciences (vice president 1976-1994, president 1994-1997), American Philosophical Society (councillor 1984-1987, Moe prize 1997), American Academy Political and Social Science (president since 2000), Council Scholars of Library. of Congress (founding chairman 1980-1983), Elizabethan Club, Mory's, Phi Beta Kappa (senator United chapters 1985-1990).
Married Sylvia Burica, June 9, 1946. Children: Martin, Michael, Miriam.