Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congratulations to the artist who did the cover portrait of Bishop Pike [Nov. 11]. It is a veritable picture of the modern Everyman, torn by the anguish of contradictions of his own making. Pike as your artist indicates represents not an individual...
...Bishop Pike is like a child who cannot see the truth behind a symbol while all of his classmates can. Perhaps, then, his reason for demythologizing Christian doctrine is to bring the Christian faith down to his level of comprehension...
...Heresy! Heresy! This is the battle cry of the disgruntled bishops. Their time would be better spent if they cried out against some of the ghastly problems confronting our society. May Bishop Pike continue to blitz the bastions of medieval doctrine, and lead the way to a Christianity that means something in this unhappy world...
...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...
...Just as we would forgive the earthworm for not knowing that the roots, trunk and leaves of the oak tree are really one entity, so must we forgive Bishop Pike if he cannot see that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are really one. Please, no trial. The bishop is neither heretic nor prophet-simply out of his depth...