| This penultimate volume in Pelikan's acclaimed history of Christian doctrine-winner with Volume 3 of the Medieval Academy's prestigious Haskins Medal-encompasses the Reformation and the developments that led to it."e,Only in America, and in this case from a Lutheran scholar, could we expect an examination so lacking in parti pris, a survey so perceptive, so free-and, one must say, the result of so much immense labor, so rewardingly presented."e,-John M. Todd, New York Times Book Review"e,Never wasting a word or losing a plot line, Pelikan builds on an array of sources that few in our era have the linguistic skill, genius or ambition to master."e,-Martin E. Marty, America"e,The use of both primary materials and secondary sources is impressive, and yet it is not too formidable for the intelligent layman."e,-William S. Barker, Eternity |
