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...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...
Remnants of the "Spring of Prague" still exist in Czechoslovkia, Pelikan said...
...said attempts at democracy are limited by the "systematic policy of destroying the great part of the Czech intelligentsia" Pelikan explained...
Former university professors of Marxism are now driving taxi-cabs, Pelikan said...
...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...