Jaroslav Pelikan, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished historians of our day, now provides a clear and engaging account of the Bible's journey from oral narrative to Hebrew and Greek text to today's countless editions. Pelikan explores the evolution of the Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic versions and the development of the printing press and its effect on the Reformation, the translation into modern languages, and varying schools of critical scholarship. Whose Bible Is It? is a triumph of scholarship that is also a pleasure to read.
Jaroslav Pelikan, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished historians of our day, now provides a clear and engaging account of the Bible's jou...
"This attractive volume, with its liberal and open approach to historical theology, will commend itself to the theologian and ecclesiastical historian alike, in whatever camp he may find himself . . . it is an open, forthright discussion that lays bare much of the sensitive areas which still form an obstacle to ultimate union."-Theological Studies
"This attractive volume, with its liberal and open approach to historical theology, will commend itself to the theologian and ecclesiastical historian...
One of the world's leading theologians offers important insights into the history and significance of Christian creeds. "A work of keen insight, great learning, and ecumenical generosity."--Robert Louis Wilken, First Things " Pelikan's] book is learned, indeed massively so, yet because of the lucidity of its prose it is accessible to the general reader."--Luke Timothy Johnson, Washington Post Book World "Indispensable. . . . An achievement unlikely to be surpassed."--Donald K.McKim, Theological Studies
One of the world's leading theologians offers important insights into the history and significance of Christian creeds. "A work of keen insight, g...
The Bible is among the world's most influential and important books - and the most controversial. But how did it become the book we know it to be? This title charts its evolution from oral tales via Hebrew texts, Greek, and Latin translations, to its many
The Bible is among the world's most influential and important books - and the most controversial. But how did it become the book we know it to be? Thi...
In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the Church in 753 under his son, Constantine V. If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art--and of the Christian church, at least in the East--would have been altered.
Iconoclasm was defeated--by Byzantine politics, by popular revolts, by monastic piety, and, most fundamentally of all, by theology, just as it had been theology that the opponents of images had used to justify their...
In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later end...
