Jaroslav Pelikan

Jaroslav Pelikan January

Jaroslav Pelikan January (born 17 December 1923 at Akron in the Ohio and died on 13 May 2006 ), professor of history at Yale University ( 1962 - 1996 ). One of the biggest specialists in the history of Christianity. He is the author of a monumental work.

He was born on 17 December 1923 at Akron in the Ohio , father Slovak mother and a Serb. His father was a pastor Lutheran and his paternal grandfather, a bishop of the Slovak Lutheran Church. He was himself a Lutheran majority of his life, and was ordained pastor, but converted with his wife Sylvia, to the Orthodox Church on 25 March 1998. He was received into Orthodoxy in the chapel of St. Vladimir. The family members claimed that Pelikan remember not having converted to Orthodoxy, but rather that he was "back to her, peeling the layers of my own faith to reveal that she had always been there " ^Works

• Christian tradition. History of development of doctrine IV, Paris, PUF, 1994:
  • The emergence of the Catholic tradition 100-600 Volume I (1971);
  • The spirit of Eastern Christianity 600-1700 Volume II (1974);
  • Growth of Medieval Theology 600-1300 Volume III (1974);
  • The reform of the Church and dogma 1300-1700 Volume IV (1984);
  • Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture since 1700 Volume V (1989).
• Jesus throughout history. His place in the history of culture, Paris, Hachette Literature, 2000
• Who owns the Bible? The book of books through the ages (La Table Ronde, al. Religions, October 2005)

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