Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ordained in 1946, Pike took over as rector of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and rebuilt a moribund parish; on the side, he undertook some "whistlestop mission preaching" that honed his skills at improvising in the pulpit. In 1949, he took over as chaplain at Columbia University and head of its meager religion department. Pike brought in good new teachers, including Paul Tillich as an adjunct professor. To upgrade his own academic credentials, Pike submitted chapters of his book Faith of the Church (written with Norman Pittenger and still used in Episcopal lay teaching), plus some other writing...
...Dean Pike became something of an official gadfly and unofficial spokesman for the Episcopal Church. Theologically, even though he had read Tillich and Niebuhr, Pike then was what he calls "smoothly orthodox. I was still a lawyer. I had just changed clients. I was an apologist. My feeling was that you've got to make the church's institution look good." On nondoctrinal controversy, however, he was an unapologetic independent. From the pulpit or on his nationwide Dean Pike TV show, he tangled with Cardinal Spellman on movie
...meaning a reconglomeration of atoms in a cadaver but as the Apostles' unique and mysterious awareness of who Christ was and what he signified. Thus his post-Resurrection appearances to his discipies may have been, in a sense, apparitions of an extraordinarily magnetic and convincing kind. Pike accepts the Resurrection, interpreted this way, as evidence for his faith in eternal life. Like the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection may well be a mysterious event, understandable only to the eye of faith and not historically verifiable in the way that Jesus' death on the cross can be authenticated. Nonetheless, theologians...
Likewise, the Trinitarian formula, baldly stated, can be impervious to human comprehension, instead of being a meaningful mystery. But not many churchmen are prepared to toss it overboard entirely. The Rev. Lester Kinsolving, an Episcopal priest in California and a young follower of Pike's, finds that "it's logical to me-I say water, steam and ice." Paul Tillich argued that the three-in-one concept was not a quantitative definition of God but a qualitative expression of the processes of divine life...
...argue, as Pike does, that truths anciently stated are no longer useful or necessary is to ignore the moving power that remains-sometimes dormant, sometimes just beneath the surface-in the dogmas, doctrines and beliefs that Christianity has built in its pilgrimage