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...early form of monastic life, but for the subsequent development of the West. Pope John Paul II, in an anniversary pronouncement, terms Augustine the "common father of our Christian civilization." Only a handful of thinkers have had equivalent influence over such a span of years. Yale Historian Jaroslav Pelikan observes in The Mystery of Continuity (University Press of Virginia, $14.95), a new work on the saint, that in each of the 16 centuries since his conversion, Augustine has been a "major intellectual, spiritual and cultural force." Even scholars who find the influence more bane than blessing grant the point...
Outsiders were quicker to defend the band's actions, than band members themselves. "It's the instituted tastelessness we all prize and laud in our Band," said Miriam R. Pelikan '89. "That's what we love them...
...Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine by Jaroslav Pelikan (Univ. of Chicago, 3 vols.). Another Lutheran's modern classic in an old-fashioned field; heavily documented, remarkably readable...
...Jaroslav Pelikan has had the good sense to call attention to the obvious: that Americans are now suffering from a "failure of nerve," a "sense of collective impotence," and a doubt as to whether the "future holds anything worth striving for"--a condition which shows at least some parallel to that of Rome in decline. Many acute social critics--notably Lewis Mumford in America and F.R. Leavis in England--have been saying similar things, not out of despair but in the hope that if we face the situation we can make room for the shoots of new life trying...
John L. Clive, professor of History and Literature, said yesterday that America's tremendous technological capability makes any comparisons between the United States and Rome meaningless. John Womack Jr. '59 professor of History, agreed with Clive and called Pelikan's speculations "idle and frivolous...