The Christian tradition : a history of the development of doctrine / Jaroslav Pelikan.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

V. 1: The emergence of the Catholic tradition (100-600) -- Praeparatio evangelica -- Outside the mainstream -- The faith of the church Catholic -- The mystery of the Trinity -- The person of the God-man -- Nature and grace -- The orthodox consensus -- V. 2: The spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700) -- Ex oriente lux -- The authority of the fathers -- Union and division in Christ -- Images of the invisible -- The challenge of the Latin church -- The vindication of Trinitarian monotheism -- The last flowering of Byzantine orthodoxy -- V. 3: The growth of medieval theology (600-1300) -- The Middle Ages as "age of faith" -- The integrity of the Catholic tradition -- Beyond the Augustinian synthesis -- The plan of salvation -- The communication of grace -- The one true faith -- Summa theologica -- V. 4: Reformation of church and dogma (1300-1700) -- Reformation defined -- Doctrinal pluralism in the later Middle Ages -- One, holy, catholic, and apostolic? -- The Gospel as the treasure of the church -- The world and the will of God -- The definition of Roman Catholic particularity -- Challenges to apostolic continuity -- Confessional dogmatics in a divided Christendom -- V. 5: Christian doctrine and modern culture (since 1700) -- "Alas, theology, too" -- The crisis of orthodoxy East and West -- The objectivity of transcendent revelation -- The theology of the heart -- Foundations of the Christian world view -- The definition of doctrine -- The sobornost of the body of Christ.

Explores the iconography, dogma, and liturgy of Greek, Slavic, and Syriac forms of Christianity.