Jesus Through the Centuries
His Place in the History of Culture

Fantastic display of how the image changes through the centuries, and the message with it. During the Victorian age, best-selling portraits of Jesus showed him as a man of delicate features and soulful eyes, with hair so long and silky he looked hyper-feminine. This Victorian Jesus seemed gentle, mee......more

Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006) was one of the great ecclesiastical historians of the twentieth century. His five-volume “The Christian Tradition: A History in the Development of Doctrine,” published throughout the 1970s and 1980s, still stands as maybe the greatest synthesis of two millennia of Christ......more

This book was excellent- truly excellent. Of the books about Jesus, which I know by reputation, this seems to be the most balanced, fair and almost non-denominational of all of them. Pelikan has this absolute mastery of the literary style, in which he combines his obvious intellectual prowess with a......more

Picked this up in a San Francisco resale shop. There were three hardcover copies, all with different prices, making this purchase a satisfying one. Pelikan has impressed me with his scholarship in the past. This, however, is more an impressionistic piece about different facets of the Jesus figure as......more

Solid treatment of the of how Jesus has been viewed throughout history. Yet as the book progresses, Pelikan’s writing losses its luster. The topics he engages with in the last five chapters lack the depth as well as the explanation that previous chapters contained. Pelikan discusses an idea without......more