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Jaroslav Jan Pelikan (December 17, 1923 – May 13, 2006) was a scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale.

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Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.

The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1984)

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

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