Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters. — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school. — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share
Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“The apostle Paul often appears in Christian thought as the one chiefly responsible for the de-Judaization of the gospel and even for the transmutation of the person of Jesus from a rabbi in the Jewish sense to a divine being in the Greek sense. Such an interpretation of Paul became almost canonical in certain schools of biblical criticism during the… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share
Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
