Jesus Through the Centuries : His Place in the History of Culture – Jaroslav Pelikan Seizoensaanbieding

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Jesus Through the Centuries : His Place in the History of Culture

Describes Jesus Christ’s changing image throughout history, from rabbi in the first century to liberator in the twentieth, and explains how each version has shaped its era socially, politically, economically, and culturally

An eminent theologian’s original and compelling study of how images of Jesus through history reveal each era’s temper and values

“A rich and expansiveof Jesus’ impact on the general history of culture. . . . Believers and skeptics alike will find it a sweeping visual and conceptual panorama.”
—John Koenig, front page, New York Times Book Review

Called “a book of uncommon brilliance” by Commonweal, Jesus Through the Centuries is an original and compelling study of the impact of Jesus on cultural, political, social, and economic history. Noted historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan reveals how the image of Jesus created by each successive epoch—from rabbi in the first century to liberator in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—is a key to understanding the temper and values of that age.

About the author:
Jaroslav Pelikan(1923–2006), a renowned scholar of the history of Christianity, was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. He was the author of more than thirty books, includingThe Christian Tradition, widely acknowledged as the foremost history of its kind.

For further NOTES See also the BACK of the book!