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 | The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine Volume 1 by Jaroslav Pelikan, Paperback | Indigo Chapters