Professor

Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

(
1923
2006
)
Yale University
;
New Haven, CT
Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
1966
Research deals with continuity and change in the history of Christian thought, Eastern as well as Western, and more recently with the cultural fallout from this in philosophy, literature, music, and art. If it has a theme, it is the study of the process that was best described by Goethe: What you have as heritage, / Now take as taske, / For thus you will make it your own.
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