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BOOK PREVIEW "Jesus Through the Centuries seems to me unique among current publications in bridging scholarly and popular discourse on the prophet from Nazareth over the past 2,000 years . . . a sweeping visual and conceptual panorama." --JOHN KOENIG, New York Times Book Review "An enlightening and often dramatic story . . . as stimulating as it is informative" --JOHN GROSS, New York Times | Contents | Jesus Through the Centuries: His place in the history of culture Author: Jarolav Pelikan Publisher: Yale University Press, 1985, 270 pages ISBN: 0-06-097080-4 Price: $13.50 TO ORDER "A gracious little masterpiece." --THOMAS D'EVELYN, Christian Science Monitor "Pelikan's knowledge, not only of history and theology but of cultural matters as well, is deep and genuine.... This is a rich and stimulating book, not just informative but illuminating." --STEPHEN CANNON, National Catholic Register BACK COVER: Among the most highly regarded works of intellectual history of the past decade, Jesus Through the Centuries, by Yale historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan, is an original and compelling study of the man who has been the dominant figure in Western civilization for almost two thousand years. Tracing the impact of Jesus on cultural, political, social, and economic history, Pelikan reveals how the image each successive epoch has created for himfrom rabbi in the first century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesis a key to understanding the temper and values of that age. This wise and informative book discovers in the life of Jesus the answers to questions of human existence and destinyfundamental questions for believers and skeptics alike.

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