The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) (Volume 1)

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. “Pelikan’s The Christian Tradition [is] a series for which they must have coined words like ‘magisterial’.”–Martin Marty, Commonweal