Jaroslav Pelikan Quotes About Tradition

• Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Life, Death, Faith

  Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

• Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Peace, Ubuntu, People

• Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Past, Done, Firsts

  Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

• The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Alternatives, Tradition

• Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Teacher, Jesus, Community

  Jaroslav Pelikan (1996). “Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries”

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