Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture
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One of the most highly regarded works of intellectual history of the past decade, 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.
Title: Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture
Sales Rank: 38938 in Books
Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: Yale University Press, 1999-11-10, Paperback, 304 pages, ISBN: 0300079877
Package Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.79 inches, 0.83 pounds
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- This was a good survey of Jesus and the impact he has had on culture. We see Jesus the rabbi, as the early Christians emphasized his Jewishness. We see Christus victor and how the cross of Christ imspired the armies of Constantine and the Roman Empire to conquer the world.
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- Best Summary of Jesus and his Impact on Western Civilization
- Jaroslav Pelikan is one of the most admired men and intellectual giants of the past century. This book is a charming and exciting read that investigates the images of the "Jesus of Culture".
He examines the person of Jesus of Nazareth and how he has influenced Western Culture through the past 2000 years. Some reviewers have commented that it is boring,… More reviews
- A classic.
- This is not a devotional work, it is an insightful and valuable slice of intellectual history. Pelikan is a Christian, but distances himself from those he describes. I think the combination of sympathy and critical distance helps the reader have his own conversation with the persons described. Pelikan bites off more than he can chew. How can there be room in one readable, coherent… More reviews
- Fascinating analysis of man's views of Jesus
- Over the last two thousand years man has struggled to understand the person of Jesus Christ. In this book, Master Historian, Jaroslav Pelikan, describes how various cultures have handled Jesus. It is truly a fascinating journey that taught me numerous things about Jesus, His church, and history that I did not know. Well worth reading if you are interested… More reviews
- Very good survey, but not great or inspirational
- This is a very useful, well researched, largely descriptive survey of how Western culture has viewed Jesus Christ. It's not a work of theology, it's not an inspirational work--it is what it is, interesting with its limitations. There's much that Pelikan faithfully records that's nonsense, such as Thomas Jefferson's breathtakingly vain and obtuse pronouncements about what Jesus really said.… More reviews
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