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32-746: The prize is awarded by the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress . The Prize is conferred in a ceremony in the Great Hall of the Jefferson Building, attended by American political leaders to dramatize America's commitment to these areas of human inquiry. The Prize winner will give an address, will remain in residence at the Library of Congress for a short time thereafter, and will be expected to have some informal interaction with Members of

64-579: A contest sponsored by Field & Stream magazine for Ed Zern's column "Exit Laughing" to translate the motto of the Madison Avenue Rod, Gun, Bloody Mary & Labrador Retriever Benevolent Association ("Keep your powder, your trout flies and your martinis dry") into Latin. Pelikan's winning entry mentioned the martini first, but Pelikan explained that it seemed no less than fitting to have the apéritif come first. His winning entry: Semper siccandae sunt: potio Pulvis, et pelliculatio. Pelikan

96-921: A member of a Lutheran Church in America congregation, which subsequently became part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). In 1998, however, he and his wife Sylvia left the ELCA and were received into the Orthodox Church in America at the Chapel of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York . According to family members, his conversion followed his meeting Pope John Paul II . Members of Pelikan's family remember him saying that he had not as much converted to Orthodoxy as "returned to it, peeling back

128-407: A pen properly but wanted to write. Pelikan's facility with languages may be traced to his multilingual childhood and early training. That facility was to serve him well in the career he ultimately chose (after contemplating becoming a concert pianist ) as an historian of Christian doctrine. He did not confine his studies to Roman Catholic and Protestant theological history, but also embraced that of

160-559: A pool of candidates as possible, in 2001, the Librarian of Congress solicited nominations for the Kluge Prize from a broad range of individuals knowledgeable about the humanities and social sciences in colleges, universities, and research institutions across the globe, as well as from independent scholars and writers. In 2002, the Librarian of the Library of Congress called upon a Scholars' Council of 20 preeminent scholars from around

192-639: The Christian East . In 1946, when he was 22, he earned both a seminary degree from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri and a PhD at the University of Chicago . Pelikan wrote more than 30 books, including the five-volume The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (1971–1989). Some of his later works attained crossover appeal, reaching beyond the scholarly sphere into

224-652: The Library of Congress to conduct research and interact with policymakers and the public. It also manages the Kluge Scholars' Council and administers the Kluge Prize at the Library of Congress. Established in 2000 within the restored Thomas Jefferson Building , the Center is named for its benefactor, John W. Kluge who donated $ 60 million to support an academic center where accomplished senior scholars and junior post-doctoral fellows might gather to make use of

256-523: The Nobel Prizes . Such disciplines include history, philosophy, politics, anthropology, sociology, religion, criticism in the arts and humanities, and linguistics. The award is at the financial level of the Nobel awards. The prize is international; the recipient may be of any nationality, writing in any language. The main criterion for a recipient of the Kluge Prize is deep intellectual accomplishment in

288-821: The President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities . Pelikan received honorary degrees from 42 universities around the world. At the age of 80, he was appointed scholarly director for the "Institutions of Democracy Project" at the Annenberg Foundation . In 2004, having received the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences , an honor he shared with the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur , Pelikan donated his award of $ 500,000 to Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary , of which he

320-664: The United States Congress . Members of the Scholars' Council , as described in the appended Charter of the John W. Kluge Center, and holders of the Kluge Chairs will be among those offering recommendations to the Librarian of Congress concerning recipients of the Kluge Prize. Endowed by Library benefactor John W. Kluge , the Kluge Prize rewards lifetime achievement in the wide range of disciplines not covered by

352-563: The history of Christianity , Christian theology , and medieval intellectual history at Yale University . Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. was born on December 17, 1923, in Akron , Ohio , to a Slovak father Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Sr. and Slovak mother Anna Buzekova Pelikan from Šid in Serbia . His father was pastor of Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois . His paternal grandfather

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384-430: The 12th annual Jefferson Lecture , the highest honor conferred by the federal government for outstanding achievement in the humanities . Pelikan's lecture became the basis for his book The Vindication of Tradition . Pelikan gave the 1992–1993 Gifford lectures at the University of Aberdeen , which were published as the book Christianity and Classical Culture . President Bill Clinton appointed Pelikan to serve on

416-558: The Center to accommodating younger scholars as Fellows, particularly scholars at the post-doctoral level. The selection of the Fellows is by competition. The charter also states that the Kluge Center will be responsible for awarding the Kluge Prize . The Kluge Center has hosted several notable scholars from the academic and political worlds, including: The Kluge Center participates in several partnerships that bring scholars to

448-467: The Librarian called upon an expert staff of curators in the Library to conduct extensive biographical and bibliographical research as well as to gather published reviews and discussions of each candidate's work, prepare abstracts of translations of key articles from material available only in foreign languages, and provide a brief characterization and evaluation of the scholarly corpus of the candidate. Finally, detailed dossiers on each candidate were sent to

480-458: The Librarian of Congress. The Center opened in summer 2002, welcoming its first scholars in July and August. In June 2015, the Kluge Center celebrated its 15th anniversary with an event titled #ScholarFest . The event brought back to Washington some of the Center's best scholars for two days of " lightning conversations " on Capitol Hill. The Washington Post described the event as "speed dating for

512-480: The Library of Congress for periods of residential research. These include partnerships with: This article incorporates text from the Library of Congress website [1] which is a product of the US Government and in the public domain . Jaroslav Pelikan Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. ( / ˈ j ɑːr ə s l ɑː v ˈ p ɛ l ɪ k ən / ; December 17, 1923 – May 13, 2006) was an American scholar of

544-701: The Library's collections and to interact with members of Congress. In addition, his gift established a $ 1 million Kluge Prize to be given in recognition of a lifetime of achievement in the human sciences. The Kluge Center invites three levels of scholars: senior scholars, post-doctoral fellows, and doctoral candidates. Past scholars have included Václav Havel , Jaroslav Pelikan , John Hope Franklin , Robert V. Remini , Romila Thapar , Fernando Henrique Cardoso , Abdolkarim Soroush , David Grinspoon , Steven J. Dick , and Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick among many. The Kluge Center hosts frequent public lectures, conferences, symposia and other scholarly events based on

576-841: The areas of American Law and Governance, Countries and Cultures of the North, Countries and Cultures of the South, Technology and Society and Modern Culture. The charter also stipulates that the Kluge Center will be home to a Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations , Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education, and Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics . The charter adds that invitations to additional distinguished visiting scholars may be made to pursue special projects. The charter commits

608-498: The general reading public, notably, Mary Through the Centuries , Jesus Through the Centuries, and Whose Bible Is It? His 1983 Jefferson Lecture , The Vindication of Tradition, included an often quoted one liner, which he elaborated in a 1989 interview in U.S. News & World Report . He said: Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with

640-422: The human sciences. The recipient's body of work should evidence growth in maturity and range over the years. The recipient will have demonstrated unusual distinction within a given area of inquiry and across disciplines in the human sciences. Significantly, the recipient's writings should be, in large part, understandable and important for those involved in public affairs. In order to ensure consideration of as wide

672-596: The information streaming into the Library via the Internet. They will have the opportunity through residence in the Jefferson Building both to distill wisdom from the rich resources of the Library and to stimulate, through informal conversations and meetings, Members of Congress, their support staffs and the broader public policy community. The Center's Scholars and Fellows will help bridge the divide between knowledge and power." The charter establishes five positions for people of great scholarly accomplishment, Kluge Chairs, in

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704-401: The intelligentsia." The Kluge Center charter states that the Kluge Center will "bring a small number of the world's best thinkers into residence at the Library of Congress. The Center will assemble the finest minds characterized by broad historical or philosophical vision and capable of providing dispassionate wisdom and intelligent mediation of the knowledge in the Library's collections and of

736-565: The layers of my own belief to reveal the Orthodoxy that was always there". Delighted with this turn of phrase, he used it (or close variants) several times among family and friends, including during a visit to St. Vladimir's for Divine Liturgy , the "last before his death." Nevertheless, Pelikan was still ecumenical in many ways. Not long before his own death, he praised Pope John Paul II in an article in The New York Times when

768-517: The members of the Final Kluge Prize Review Panel. Deliberating at the Library, this panel submitted its recommendations to the Librarian, who then made the final decision. This article incorporates text from the Library of Congress website, which is a product of the US Government and in the public domain . John W. Kluge Center The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress invites and welcomes scholars to

800-477: The past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition. He joined Yale University in 1962 as the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History and in 1972

832-526: The pope died in 2005: It will be a celebration of the legacy of Pope John Paul II and an answer to his prayers (and to those of all Christians, beginning with their Lord himself) if the Eastern and Western churches can produce the necessary mixture of charity and sincere effort to continue to work toward the time when they all may be one. Pelikan died on May 13, 2006, at his home in Hamden , Connecticut , at

864-486: The work of its scholars. The Kluge Center was founded in 2000 with a gift to the Library of Congress by philanthropist John W. Kluge . The gift was announced on October 5, 2000, in a joint press conference by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), then Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, Rep. Bill Thomas (R-California), then Vice-Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and James H. Billington , then

896-506: The world to consider the range of nominations. The council had been established to offer suggestions and advice on the choice of scholars to study at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library. Based upon extensive research and further recommendations, the director of the Office of Scholarly Programs prepared a list of candidates for the Librarian's consideration in 2003. In addition to soliciting numerous outside reviews for each of these scholars,

928-522: Was a trustee . At the ceremony, he quoted a leitmotif passage from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that had moved him all his life: " Was du ererbt von deinen Vaetern hast, Erwirb es um es zu besitzen " ("Take what you have inherited from your fathers and work to make it your own."). For most of his life Pelikan was a Lutheran and was a pastor in that tradition. He was an ordained pastor in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod before becoming

960-686: Was a Lutheran pastor in Chicago, and in 1902, a charter founder, and later president of, the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches , which until 1958 was known as the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church, a strictly conservative orthodox church of the Augsburg Confession. According to family members, Pelikan's mother taught him how to use a typewriter when he was three years old because he could not yet hold

992-824: Was appointed to numerous leadership positions in American intellectual life. He was the president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . He was editor of the religion section of Encyclopædia Britannica , and, in 1980, he founded the Council of Scholars at the Library of Congress . In 1983 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him to deliver

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1024-634: Was named Sterling Professor of History , a position he held until achieving emeritus status in 1996. He served as acting dean and then dean of the Graduate School from 1973 to 1978 and was the William Clyde DeVane Lecturer 1984–1986 and again in the fall of 1995. Awards include the Graduate School's 1979 Wilbur Cross Medal and the Medieval Academy of America 's 1985 Haskins Medal. While at Yale, Pelikan won

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