Word: pelikan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jaroslav I. Pelikan said he thinks the American people, like the Romans, have come to doubt whether or not the "future holds anything worth striving for," adding that when "ennui sets in, society atrophies...
...Pelikan presented similar views and made comparisons between declining Rome and modern American at a conference in Washington Wednesday commemorating the upcoming bicentennial of historian Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
America is more handicapped than Rome, Pelikan said yesterday, because of "privatism" or putting private fulfilment above the public good...
...University of Chicago Press, for example, is publishing Church Historian Jaroslav Pelikan's magisterial five-volume series on the development of Christian doctrine, The Christian Tradition. It recently issued Lutheran Pelikan's second volume, The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (329 pages; $16.50), a careful distillation of Eastern Orthodoxy's contribution to Christian thought. Princeton University Press will soon bring out a massive survey called Religious Movements in Contemporary America (900 pages; $25), which ranges from Scientology to Krishna Consciousness. An earlier entry from Yale University Press, Historian Sydney E. Ahlstrom's huge but very readable...
...Pelikan expressed optimism that the current situation in his country would not be a permanent one. "I am convinced that someday there will be a new 'spring of Prague' offering an alternative program of socialist democracy," Pelikan said...