Jaroslav pelikan biography of christopher columbus
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by Jaroslav Pelikan
Dr. Pelikan is Sterling professor of history and William Clyde DeVane lecturer at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
This article appeared in The Christian Century, September 25, 1985, pp. 827-831. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
SUMMARY
As respect for the organized church has declined, reverence for Jesus has grown. Within the church, but also far beyond its walls, his person and message are, in the phrase of Augustine, a “beauty ever ancient, ever new,” and now he belongs to the world.
The following article is excerpted from the concluding chapter of historian Jaroslav Pelikan’s book titled
Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, scheduled for October publication by Yale University Press. The book examines the impact of Jesus on the cultural, political, social and economic history of the past two millennia. Studying the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages -- from rabbi in the first century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the 19th and 20th centuries -- Pelikan suggests that the•
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Christopher Columbus's Naming in the 'diarios' of the Four Voyages (1492-1504): A Discourse of Negotiation 9781442668249
Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. “Named Incorrectly”: The Geographic and Symbolic Functions of Columbian Place Names
2. Words and the World: The Known Corpus of Columbian Place Names
3. “Y saber dellos los secretos de la tierra”: Taino Toponymy and Columbian Naming
5. Iguana and Christ
6. Infernal Imagery: Spirituality and Cosmology in the Final Two Voyages
Conclusion
Appendix: A Comprehensive List of Columbian Place Names
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS’S NAMING IN THE DIARIOS OF THE FOUR VOYAGES (1492–1504) A Discourse of Negotiation
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Christopher Columbus’s Naming in the diarios of the Four Voyages (1492–1504) A Discourse of Negotiation
EVELINA GUŽAUSKYTĖ
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London
© University of Toronto Press 2014 Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com Printed in Canada ISBN 978-1-4426-4746-6
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Gužauskytė, Evelina, 1975–, author Christopher Columbu