Script: Traditional Chinese Publisher: Logos and Pneuma Press Date: Jan-2010 Format/Pages: Softcover 210 x 140 mm, 504 pp ISBN: 9789628911585 Availability: ship from Hong Kong Price: $24.98 USD ($190 HKD)
The second volume of Professor Pelikan's monumental work of The Christian Tradition is the most comprehensive historical treatment of Eastern Christian thought from 600 to 1700 written in recent years. This volume covers the great Christological controversies of the seventh century, the debate on icons in the 8th and 9th, attitudes to Jews, to Muslims, to the dualistic heresies of the high Middle Ages, to the post-Reformation churchs of Western Europe. The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the "iron curtain" of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences combine to isolate the two cultures from each other. Pelikan explains the divisions between Eastern and Western Christendom and identifies and describes the development of the distinctive forms taken by Christian doctrine in its Greek, Syriac and early Slavic tradition. The table of contents includes:
Read with discretion. Translated and published by non-Orthodox and underwritten by the Orthodox Brotherhood of Saints Apostles Peter and Paul in Hong Kong. Author completed this volume originally in English in 1974 prior to his reception into Orthodoxy in 1998. Members of Dr Pelikan's family remember him saying that he had not as much converted to Orthodoxy as "returned to it, peeling back the layers of my own belief to reveal the Orthodoxy that was always there."