All of us who love the Fathers feel diminished by the passing of the great Jaroslav Pelikan — though we could spend a large chunk of our remaining years just catching up with the books he left behind on his way to heaven.

Pelikan was a Lutheran theologian through most of his career. He entered the Orthodox Church in 1998. May he rest in peace.

See Mark Noll’s 1990 interview with him in Christianity Today. Visit Pelikan’s web page at Yale, too.

And do read him, especially his The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600 A.D.) and his Gifford Lectures.

Hat tip: Biblicalia.