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

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