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Flesh of Our Flesh. Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale believes the time is long past when Protestants could content themselves with sneering at Catholic Marian idolatry. Now, any criticism of Roman doctrine must be "accompanied by a positive discussion of the mother of our Lord as viewed from a Biblical and evangelical perspective." Pelikan argues that Mary cannot be ignored because she is the "warrant for the Christian declaration that our Lord was a true man, flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone." She also has a significance for the church: "the brief description of her career...
Religious barriers hardly exist any more in church publishing. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford writes for the lay-edited Catholic weekly Commonweal, and Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan is a regular columnist for Denver's Catholic diocesan weekly, the Register. Last week Pittsburgh's Catholic Duquesne University Press published a new Journal of Ecumenical Studies; the editors include Brown, Catholic Theologians Hans Kung and Gregory Baum, Lutheran George Lindbeck...
...than the used-car business." Perhaps the most ambitious talent-raiding these days is done by Chicago, which recently has signed up Paul Tillich from Harvard. Langdon Gilkey from Vanderbilt. Charles Stinnette from Union, and Joseph Haroutunian from nearby McCormick Theological Seminary (although it lost Lutheran Church Historian Jaroslav Pelikan to Yale...
Protestantism's most promising theological pathfinders: ∙JAROSLAV JAN PELIKAN JR., 38, Professor of historical theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Son and grandson of Lutheran ministers, prolific "Jary" Pelikan has written six books (best known: 1959'S The Riddle of Roman Catholicism, which sold 42,000 copies), co-authored six others, produced more than 100 scholarly articles. He also serves as one of the religion editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A graduate of the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, he won his doctorate at Chicago...
Clement's answer, writes Theologian Pelikan, "provides a good opportunity to watch the Christian and the classical doctrines of man in combination and collision." Just as the body is not an inferior but a worthy thing, wrote Clement, so the Christian must not despise the world. "The elect man dwells as a sojourner . . . The body, too, as one sent on a distant pilgrimage, uses inns and dwellings by the way. It has care of the things of the world, of the places where it stops; but it leaves its dwelling place and property without excessive emotion...