Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spiritual Odyssey. If Pike feels this need for renewal with a special intensity, it may well stem from his experience in wavering between faith and doubt. His widowed mother, a schoolteacher, raised him as a Roman Catholic, and during his school years in Oklahoma City and Hollywood, he recalls, "I was what you would call devout. I was with it all the way-frequently a weekday communicant, an acolyte, the whole...
...Pike went on to the Jesuits' University of Santa Clara with vague hopes of studying some day for the priesthood. Rather than stilling his first quiet doubts about Christian doctrine, the Jesuits increased them. Pike was jolted by the inconsistency between what he learned in the physics lab and what...
...taught in philosophy class, bothered still more by his inability to accept natural law-the concept that there are certain God-given laws of behavior known to man by reason alone rather than revela tion. By the end of his sophomore year, Pike had decided that he could not be a priest, and transferred first to U.C.L.A. and then to the University of Southern California to enter law school...
Spiritually speaking, Pike "went over the wall. I was a free guy. It was glorious. I was vaguely a humanist, caring about good causes and truth, but the religious question didn't concern me. I wasn't antichurch; I just dropped out." He went on from U.S.C. to gain a doctorate in jurisprudence at Yale, and then to Washington to work for the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1938. "I was a fervent humanist when I went to work for the New Deal," Pike says. "I had a real sense of cause, of saving the widows and orphans...
...Vatican Roulette." After World War II broke out, Pike got a commission in Naval Intelligence but stayed in Washington. War, that great upsetter of human routine, started him thinking again about what he calls "the big question," and he began occasionally going back to church. One Easter Sunday, at Washington's National Cathedral, Pike was overwhelmed by the beauty of the liturgy and its music, and pondered becoming an Episcopalian-mostly because "it looked like a church ought to look," and had "an intellectual sophistication and breadth." In 1944, the Pikes were remarried in church-"with our first daughter...