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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pike & Dogma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...Thank you very much for your cover story [Nov. 11] on Bishop James Albert Pike, a man whom I greatly admire for his courage and convictions. It is high time that someone made people think for themselves, instead of letting the church do it for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...Episcopalians because of Pike's counseling and friendship, one of us a former Congregationalist, who did not believe enough, the other a former Roman Catholic, who was called on to believe too much. Pike is a great mind, a great spirit and a great Christian in the fullest sense of that special word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...traditional position of the church has been to promulgate dogma, but we live in a day when dogma is a dirty word and to call a person dogmatic means he has a narrow, closed mind. Pike, thank God, has an open mind, a facile, exciting mind, and if he dares suggest we re-examine the meaning of some of those traditional words, he is trying to speak to the people of today, and we say "God bless him" for trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...wrote to the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church just before the farcical meeting of the House of Bishops, I would far rather, if it became an issue, be outside the church with the right to think and with commitment to truth and love with a man like James Pike than remain in it with the hypocrisy, cowardice, bigotry and superstition of his accusers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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