The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 1 The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600)
by Jaroslav Pelikan
University of Chicago Press, 1971
Cloth: 978-0-226-65370-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-65371-6 | Electronic: 978-0-226-02816-3
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226028163.001.0001

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ABOUT THIS BOOK


The first volume of a magisterial survey of the entire history of the Christian tradition, this volume focusing on the emergence of Catholicism

In this five-volume opus Jaroslav Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth.

 

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Jaroslav Pelikan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.

REVIEWS

"Pelikan's The Christian Tradition [is] a series for which they must have coined words like 'magisterial'."
— Martin Marty, Commonweal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Christ as Divine

6. The State of Christian Anthropology

Preface

Primary Sources

Some Definitions

1. Praeparatio Evangelica

The True Israel

The Christian Dispute with Classical Thought

The Triumph of Theology

The Expectations of the Nations

2. Outside the Mainstream

The Separation of Law and Gospel

Systems of Cosmic Redemption

The New Prophecy

3. The Faith of the Church Catholic

The Apocalyptic Vision and Its Transformation

The Supernatural Order

The Meaning of Salvation

The Church and the Means of Grace

4. The Mystery of the Trinity

Christ as Creature

Christ as Homoousios

The Three and the One

5. The Person of the God-Man

Presuppositions of Christological Doctrine

Alternative Theologies of the Incarnation

The Dogma of the Two Natures in Christ

The Continuing Debate

The Paradox of Grace

Grace and Perfection

Natural Endowment and Superadded Gift

7. The Orthodox Consensus

Ubique, Semper, Ab Omnibus

Catholic Orthodoxy in the East

Orthodox Catholicism in the West

Selected Secondary Works

Index: Biblical

General