Dátum narodenia: 17. december 1923
Dátum úmrtia: 13. máj 2006
Jaroslav Pelikan bol americký historik, jeden z najvýznamnejších svetových novodobých historikov kresťanstva, cirkevnej histórie, teológie a stredovekej kultúry.
Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. (ang.)
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: PELIKAN, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine : vol. 1 The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600). Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1971. 394 s. ISBN 0-226-65370-6. s. 9.
The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1984), p. 65.
Alternate version" Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.
in "Christianity as an enfolding circle," U.S. News & World Report (June 26, 1989), p. 57
