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Novak of Stanford might be hard-pressed to show any "intellectual laziness" on Pike's part; Macquarrie's suggestion that Christianity is a "package deal," an all-or-nothing proposition, is not a very realistic position if Christianity is to survive in modern society; and if Christianity, like the Trinity, were left to survive on the metaphysical jargon of Karl Barth, there would be little hope...
...Practical Church Dictionary says: "Bishops are the chief defenders of the Faith and ambassadors for Christ." As a bishop, Pike does not appear to have qualified on either count. One wonders whether in his attempt to speak to the modern nonbeliever Pike has not done much more harm than good to the branch of the Church of God he elected to serve. Damn James Pike then, and doubly damn those of his peers who do not publicly oppose his heresies...
...first modern work on suicide, by French Sociologist Emile Durkheim, was published in 1897, and is still a classic. Durkheim laid the blame for suicide on the interplay between individual and society. He divided suicides into three main strains: 1) Egoistic, in which the individual is too much on his own, isolated from the community; 2) Altruistic, in which the individual is too little on his own and at the mercy of society, like the Indian wives who committed suttee by throwing themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres; 3) Anomic, in which society's controls over the individual...
...aggression against someone loved turned inward upon the self, because the self is identified with the loved one. Later, Freud formulated his famed "death instinct," into which suicide fitted neatly as death's triumph over the life instinct. Many psychoanalysts do not accept the death instinct, but most modern thinking swings between versions of Freud's psychodynamics of depression on the one hand and Durkheim's sociological factors on the other...
Head of the new Washington organization is Psychologist Shneidman who joined with Fellow Psychologist Farberow eight years ago to found the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, recognized as the most thorough and modern operation of its kind. The volunteers on its staff, who have been trained by professionals, answer the agonized phone calls that flood in with sympathetic attention, assess the imminence of a suicidal act, and refer callers to institutions for help...