![]() ![]() I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. He had just compiled a historic collection of creeds from biblical times to the present and from across the globe. I met him in 2003 - the first year of this show. And my conversation with him is cited by listeners from an astonishing range of belief and non-belief as one of their favorites. ![]() Pelikan was one of those people relatively unknown in the wider culture, but a living legend in his world of accomplishment. He even insisted that strong statements of belief will be necessary if 21st Century pluralism is to thrive. He had a gift, which we remember this hour, of clarifying the past for the sake of the present and the future. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: The late great historian Jaroslav Pelikan knew that the very idea of reciting an unchanging creed was troublesome for modern people. They’re asking me, ‘Are you a member of a community which now, for a millennium and a half, has said, we believe in one God?’ What do I believe today?’ No, that’s not what they’re asking me. And so I’m not asked on a Sunday morning, ‘As of 9:20, what do you believe?’ And then you sit down with a three-by-five index card saying, ‘Now let’s see. There are ups and downs and hot spots and cold spots and boredom and ennui and all the rest can be there. ![]() ![]() JAROSLAV PELIKAN: My faith life, like that of everyone else, fluctuates. ![]()
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