R.I.P. Jaroslav Pelikan

"Jaroslav Pelikan died on Saturday at age eighty-two. The funeral is Wednesday morning at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary in Crestwood, New York, beginning at nine o’clock. Jaroslav Pelikan was in the estimation of many the twentieth century’s most distinguished historian of Christianity. He taught at Yale from 1962 to 1996 and was the immediate past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A pastor and the son of a pastor of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, Pelikan entered into communion with the Orthodox Church in 1998.

In one of the first issues of First Things, David Lotz wrote “The Achievement of Jaroslav Pelikan,” summarizing Pelikan’s magisterial five-volume history of the Christian Tradition. A further appreciation of Pelikan’s person and achievements—by Robert Louis Wilken, his student and friend—will appear in a forthcoming issue of First Things. May choirs of angels welcome Jaroslav Pelikan home. "

from "First Things" weblog.
http://www.yale-university.com/history/faculty/pelikan.html