Pelikan combines different visual illustrations of jesus throughout the history of the church that forces onlookers to look outside of their own common conceptions of the 1st century revolutionary from nazareth highly recommended for anyone in the church or interested in seeing different illustrations of jesus from various cultures and time. The illustrated jesus through the centuries amazonde pelikan jaroslav jan fremdsprachige bucher wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen konnen und um werbung anzuzeigen. In this wise informative and sumptuously illustrated book jaroslav pelikan discusses how each age created jesus in its own image discovering in his life and teachings the answers to fundamental questions of human existence and destiny studying the images of jesus cherished by successive ages from rabbi in the first century to universal man in the renaissance to liberator in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries pelikan suggests that the way a particular age depicted jesus is an . Pelikan is one of those rare academics who exercises both sides of his brain and the illustrated jesus through the centuries enhances our access to jesus through the imagery of art ever the