Peter Edman
I was sorry to read this morning of the death of Yale theologian and historian of religion Jaroslav Pelikan.
I recently read his 2005 book Whose Bible Is It?, which is a useful and well-balanced primer on the history of the Bible and its readers. He also begins to explain some of the ways we are finally moving forward in our understanding of the Bible after the modernist/fundamentalist controversies of the twentieth century. I’ve been planning on writing a short review of it for Implications, and will probably still do so in conjunction with a later piece. I certainly commend his books to our audience—they are by and large easily accessible and definitely worth your time.
Gleanings, Arts and Culture, Tue 16 May 2006
For although, unless he understands somewhat, no man can believe in God, nevertheless by the very faith by which he believes, he is helped to the understanding of greater things. For there are some things which we do not believe unless we understand them; and there are other things which we do not understand unless we believe them.
Augustine of Hippo
