Justification of tradition

"Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living" - this is the slogan of Yaroslav Pelican in the book "Justification of tradition", a kind of manifesto in the field of "history of tradition", whose powerful development is due, not least, genius this undoubted leader of the modern American humanities. In the proposed series of lectures, the author briefly formulates the observations he developed in a number of monumental works - the five-volume "Christian Tradition", research "Jesus through the ages", "Who owns the Bible? History of the Scriptures through the Ages ”and in the book“ Idea of the University ”already familiar to the Ukrainian reader. Rethinking.