Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shop Pike [Nov. 11] is indeed a man who "will not stay in place," and it is remarkable that you have managed what many still fail to capture in print: the portrait of a man honestly searching out reasonable answers for the conflict between the historical church and its place in the 20th century...
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...
...Bishop Pike has sought to focus the search for religion upon admittedly distressing matters of faith and dogma, but if we grant him a certain amount of oversimplification, this may be the best foundation-a set of first principles from which a viable religion might from the old be forged, sustained by traditional Christianity, but now with some relevance for the 20th century...
...Bishop Pike's courage is magnificent, but my feelings about him are ambivalent. He seems to lack discipline. Are his garish slogans and slick phrases really necessary? They seem only to arouse the anger of the more dogmatic members of the church. The Episcopal Church is remarkable for its liberal thought, and surely is not offended by Pike's questioning, but only by his method of questioning. He has shown himself capable of deeo reflection and perceptive expression. Discipline rightly used will not diminish his message, but will polish and refine it into the harmonizing and reforming force...
...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...