CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series Spring 2002 Jaroslav Pelikan Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and Senior Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Kluge Center, Library of Congress Jaroslav Pelikan is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University where he served on the faculty from 1962-96 and currently Senior Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1946. One of the world's leading scholars in the history of Christianity, and a brilliant and dynamic speaker in much demand around the world, he has written more than 30 books including the five volume The Christian Tradition (1971-89); From Luther to Kierkegaard (1955); Luther the Expositor (1959); The Shape of Death: Life, Death, and Immortality in the Early Fathers (1961); The Light of the World: A Basic Image in Early Christian Thought, Christianity and Classical Culture (1962); Spirit versus Structure: Luther and the Institutions of the Church (1968); Jesus through the Centuries (1985); Bach Among the Theologians (1986); Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apology for Icons (1990); The Idea of the University: A Reexamination (1992); Faust the Theologian (1995); and Mary Through the Centuries (1996); and many others. He has also served as editor of several now-standard multi-volume reference series in the history of Christianity, and has been curator of a number of museum and library exhibitions. Among his many honors, Professor Pelikan was named the Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment of the Humanities in 1983.