Book Review: The Death Penalty Debate: Two Opposing Views of Capital Punishment

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Abstract

Professor Pelikan, the sterling Professor of History at Yale University, is developing if not a genre at least a style of interfacing Christian history with theology and the arts. This thin volume of six chapters is developed from lectures given at three universities on the subject of Dante and the interface with Western religious ideas. This volume is to be added to Pelikan's Bach Among the Theologians, 1986, His Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons, 1990, and his earlier work, Jesus Through the Centuries which concentrates on visual presentations of the Christ. The brief preface relates Pelikan to Book Reviews Review and Expositor, 89 (1992) -----_ ..._-