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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...
...Speculation on the subject was wide open in the early centuries of Christianity, and it was the church fathers of that period who laid the foundation for later Christian thought on death. In a new book, The Shape of Death (Abingdon Press; $2.25), leading Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan of the University of Chicago analyzes the theories of five church fathers, shows that they are still stimulating and provocative to fission-era mortals...
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...
...Republic asked them five questions. Dean Bennett and Professor Schlesinger answered each separately; Professor Pelikan dealt with all five in a single reply. ¶ Catholicism became the dominant religion in the U.S., would the church deny non-Catholics the right to propagate their faiths? No, say both Bennett and Schlesinger. Theologian Bennett gives two reasons: 1) Catholics in democratic countries have come to see that the church does better where it does not assert authoritarian influence than in places such as Spain and Latin America; 2) more and more Catholic scholars and church leaders are coming to accept religious liberty...
Brushing aside all such details, Conservative Lutheran Pelikan gives his answer in the form of a blast at the questions themselves. They are, says he, symptoms of a kind of militant, secular liberalism that would homogenize religion in the U.S. The questions indicate a confusion that identifies " 'the American way of life' as a religion, the national temple under whose broad roof various shrines -Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox-may be permitted to worship so long as they acknowledge themselves to be sects or parties within the one state Shinto...