"The church is always more than a school…. But the church cannot be less than a school."

— Jaroslav Pelikan
The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), 1.

"An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative."

- Jaroslav Pelikan

Jaroslav Pelikan (b. 1923), U.S. theologian. "Atheist/Agnostic," The Melody of Theology: A Philosophical Dictionary, Harvard University Press (1988). Citation.

"Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray."

- Jaroslov Pelikan