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Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture
Jesus Through the Centuries His Place in the History of Culture Author:Jaroslav Pelikan 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, ... more »political, social, and economic history, Pelikan reveals how the image each successive epoch has created for him -- from rabbi in the first century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- is 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 destiny - fundamental questions for believers and skeptics alike.« less