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The Christian Tradition 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition 100-600

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In this five-volume opus—now available in its entirety in paperback—Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth.

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"Pelikan's The Christian Tradition[is] a series for which they must have coined words like 'magisterial'."—Martin Marty, Commonweal

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long · 442 pages

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