Jaroslav pelikan biography

  • Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. was an American scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology, and medieval intellectual history at Yale University.
  • Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr was an American scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology, and medieval intellectual history at Yale University.
  • Pelikan was born in 1923 in Akron, Ohio.

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    Jaroslav Pelikan

    American Christian scholar (1923–2006)

    Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. (; December 17, 1923 – May 13, 2006) was an American scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology, and medieval intellectual history at Yale University.

    Early years

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    Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. was born on December 17, 1923, in Akron, Ohio,[6] to a Slovak father Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Sr. and Slovak mother Anna Buzekova Pelikan from Šid in Serbia. His father was pastor of Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois. His paternal grandfather was a Lutheran pastor in Chicago, and in 1902, a charter founder, and later president of, the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, which until 1958 was known as the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church, a strictly conservative orthodox church of the Augsburg Confession. [citation needed]

    According to family members, Pelikan's mother taught him how to use a typewriter when he was three years old because he could

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    Jaroslav Pelikan

    Jaroslav Jan Pelikan(December 17, 1923 – May 13, 2006) was one of the world's leading scholars in the history of Christianity and authored more than 30 books including the five-volume The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine(1971–1989). Pelikan gave the 1992–93 Gifford lecturesat the University of Aberdeen, which yielded the book Christianity and Classical Culture. He was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University where he served on the faculty from 1962 to 1996, and was the president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciencesfrom 1994 to 1997.

    Born in Akron, Ohio, as the son of a Slovak Lutheran pastor and a Serbian mother, Pelikan joined the Orthodox Church in America on March 25, 1998.

    In 2004, having received the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences, Pelikan donated his award to Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, of which he was a trustee.

    On May 13, 2006,

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    Jaroslav Pelikan

    It has been nearly ten years since Jaroslav Pelikan died and a full twenty-five since he completed The Christian Tradition, his five-volume, 2,100-page history of “what the church of Jesus Christ believes, teaches, and confesses on the grund of the Word of God.” Who was Jaroslav Pelikan, and why does his work remain so important for serious Christian scholarship today?

    Pelikan loved to quote this line from Goethe, his favorite poet: “What you have received as heritage, take now as task and thus you will make it your own.” Pelikan’s remarkable scholarly career was rooted in his Slavic family background. Both of his parents were born in Europe. His father and grandfather were Lutheran pastors. His mother was a school teacher who learned English by reading the essays of Emerson. They bequeathed to ung Jary, as he was called, both a love for learning and a desire for God.

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