(Christiainity today article)

Delighted by doctrine

Historian Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006) thought theology was too important to be left to the theologians.

When Jaroslav Pelikan died at age 82 on May 13, 2006, the world of Christian scholarship lost its greatest living advocate and the best church historian America has ever produced. Words like "greatest" and "best" are frequently used in a loose manner simply to say something nice about someone—but in the case of Jary, as his friends called him, they are really true.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2006/003/2.43.html