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Jaroslav Pelikan



Historian Jaroslav Pelikan is honored for contributions

Sterling Professor of History Emeritus Jaroslav Pelikan is the recipient of two recent honors.

A four-volume work he co-edited, titled "Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition," will be distributed to developing countries with support from a $50,000 grant from the Virginia Farah Foundation.

In addition, Pelikan's 80th birthday is being celebrated through the end of this year with a national lecture series.


Book project

The grant from the Virginia Farah Foundation will allow the complete set of "Creeds And Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition," which Pelikan co-edited with Valerie Hotchkiss, to be distributed to Orthodox seminaries and other theological schools of many denominational backgrounds in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The book was published by Yale University Press.

"It is a significant project for the Virginia Farah Foundation to undertake," says Pelikan. "It signifies the willingness to help spread cultural and intellectual scholarship in the developing world to people who would not be able to afford the books."

The Virginia Farah Foundation supports creative projects that help to spread the Christian message while improving the quality of life. Seminaries and schools in countries that have emerged from communism and where theology was ignored or persecuted will receive copies of "Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition." In the spirit of the program, Pelikan will forego royalties for this project. The foundation expects to send sets to about 300 schools.

Pelikan has been translating, editing and studying the Christian creeds and confessions for 60 years. The complete work includes over 225 texts, with translations from many languages. Pelikan and Hotchkiss provide a brief introduction to each creed and confession, as well as commentary and notes identifying its biblical and other sources. A massive comparative index prepared by Pelikan serves as a comprehensive guide, doctrine by doctrine, to all the creeds and confessions. A CD-ROM, which contains all the translated texts in their original languages, is also included.

"Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition" has received praise from such individuals as Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Lawrence S. Cunningham, a theology professor at The University of Notre Dame, said of the collection: "There is no doubt that this new capacious assemblage will be the standard resource for the next century and an indispensable tool for serious theological research."


Lecture series

The celebration of Pelikan's 80th birthday began in May of this year with the first lecture in the national series "Orthodoxy and Western Culture." It was presented by Andrew Louth, of the University of Durham, at the University of Chicago.

The second lecture, by Anthony Ugolnik of Franklin Marshall College, was presented at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

The series will continue this fall with talks by John Anthony McGuckin of Union Theological Seminar and Columbia University (Sept. 14 at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminar in Crestwood, New York); Speros Vryonis Jr., the Emeritus Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Civilization and Culture at New York University (Oct. 18 and 19 at the Annunciation Cathedral of San Francisco, San Francisco, California); James Billington, the librarian of Congress (Nov. 20 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas) and Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York (at a date and location to be announced).

Pelikan will present his own lecture in the series, on the topic "The Will to Believe and the Need for Creed," on Dec. 5 at Yale. His talk, sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, will be preceded by a concert of credo settings. For more information on this event, call (203) 432-5180 or e-mail melissa.maier@yale.edu.

Other sponsors of the lecture series are the Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology and the William P. Clements History Department at Southern Methodist University; St. Seraphim Orthodox Catherdral; The University of Chicago Divinity School; the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research and the Colman Barry Fund of St. John's University; the Library of Congress; the Annunciation Cathedral of San Francisco; and St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary.

For further information on the lecture series, visit the website at pelikan80.smu.edu.


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