Word: pelikan
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When the Roman Catholic Church speaks on moral problems, Protestant Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan points out, it speaks on one of three levels: 1) natural law, which it considers applicable to all men, Christian or not, by virtue of their creation; 2) revealed law, applicable to all Christians "in a state of grace"; and 3) church law, applicable only to members of a particular church. There is little dispute left over the last two categories. Few Catholics would argue any longer that revealed law (for instance, the Christian sacrament of marriage) or church law (for instance, the celibacy of priests) should...
...Yale's Lutheran Historian Jaroslav Pelikan, the Reformation was a "tragic necessity"-tragic in that it shattered the unity of Christendom, necessary in that it cleansed the church and restored man's faith in God to its Scriptural roots. It is equally true that the Reformation is an unrealized hope and unfinished ideal. Today, says Dr. Wilhelm Pauck of Union Theological Seminary, "one could characterize the spirit of our epoch as pre-Reformation. The old order is in a process of dissolution, but there is also a great positive religious expectancy...
...wrath might well be the bureaucratization of the churches. Although one target of the Reformation was the overweening power of the Roman Curia, hardly a U.S. church exists without a frightening quota of red tape and organizational concern. "The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's." Bureaucratic business goes hand in hand with clerical direction of the churches. "It is one of the great ironies of history," says Dean F. Thomas Trotter of California's Claremont School of Theology, "that whereas Protestantism began as an anticlerical movement, by and large...
...directly to many of their current concerns. Although theologians have trouble trying to translate justification by faith into contemporary terms-a discussion of the subject at a 1963 meeting of the Lutheran World Federation broke up in total bafflement-few Protestants are prepared to repudiate it. Yale's Pelikan insists that "there is some relevance to a thought whose entire concern is how to cope with guilt, anxiety and fear...
...insists that authors were picked solely for their knowledgeability rather than for their faith. The article on Jewish theological education, for example, was written by Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary, while Editor Erwin Canham of the Christian Science Monitor wrote about Christian Science. Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale served as consultant for the articles on Protestantism, which display a new sympathy for once-deprecated figures like Calvin and Luther...