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Miller was primarily a churchman. He had just come from 25 years as pastor of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church--with a congregation made up primarily of laborers, social workers, and students. "I love this Church more than anything else in the world," he once told a friend...
...student who questions encouraged, the questioning scientist praised, but the questioning churchman condemned? Today Bishop Pike finds himself in the same predicament as did Socrates and Christ-born before his time. After all, faith is just that; it's not a list...
...Catholic Churchman." Myers is more than sufficiently liberal on social and race issues to satisfy the enthusiastic followers of Pike, and sufficiently orthodox on theological matters to soothe those moderates and conservatives who think Pike close to heresy. Pike and Myers have been friends since their teaching days together at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary 20 years ago. Myers' work in slum and Negro areas of Jersey City, New York and Chicago has won him the reputation of being more at home in the asphalt jungle than the pulpit. He and his wife Katie Lea had no children...
Unlike Pike, Myers shuns theological controversy, calls himself simply a "catholic churchman." When asked what he thinks of such thorny matters as Pike's denial of the Virgin Birth, the physical Resurrection of Christ and the Trinity, and his restless questioning of the nature of God, Myers is diplomatic. "The theological situation throughout the church today is extremely confused," says he, "and Bishop Pike is simply a part of that...
...Caesar. Churchman Krogager keeps God's business and Caesar's nicely separated. Technically, he is only a consultant to Tjaereborg, though he has the consent of his bishop and elders to consult as much as he wants. When other travel agencies complained about his growing activity, Denmark's Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs itself announced that there was no conflict between church work and tourism...