Word: louttit
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...Congratulations to Bishop Henry I. Louttit and his 30 fellow petitioners. I am not an Episcopalian. But the idea of a man with Pike's views as clergyman or layman in a Christian church seems as incongruous to me as a schoolteacher who does not believe in education. Either we are for Christ and the fundamentals of the faith or we are against them. I could have no respect for a church that lets a man straddle the fence...
...Probably Bishop Louttit also takes seriously the funny little kindergarten story of Uncle Noah and his ark. If only people like him would come down from their clouds and set foot on earth, they might do a lot of good...
...Irresponsible." Last month's accusation was the most serious. Shortly after Pike resigned as Bishop of California to become a resident member of Robert Hutchins' Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara, South Florida's Anglo-Catholic Bishop Henry Louttit, backed by more than 30 other prelates, drew up a petition calling for a church court to try Pike for heresy. The move was forestalled only when the House of Bishops agreed to approve a statement of principles that denounced Pike's theologizing as "offensive" and "irresponsible"-terms as harsh as any church...
Consensus of the House. In order to head off Louttit's formal presentation of the heresy charge, Presiding Bishop John T. Hines had named an ad hoc committee to prepare a general statement that would reflect the consensus of the house. The committee was headed by the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, 74, the retired Bishop of Washington who, in 1946, ordained Pike to the priesthood. Dun's committee proposed rebuking Pike instead of trying him. The debate on its recommendation became in effect a trial by rhetoric-not so much of Pike as of the church itself...
...statement, with two minor deletions. The statement rejected the "tone and manner" of Pike's theologizing as "highly disturbing within the communion of the church," criticized his writings as being too often "marred by caricatures of treasured symbols." The criticism of Pike was apparently good enough for Louttit; at a caucus later, he and his fellow bishops on the "Committee for the Defense of the Faith" agreed to drop their demand for a trial...