Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement was not reached without a paroxysm of agonizing and soul-searching. Much as they deplored Pike's flippant way with church teaching, few bishops consider him serious or deep enough a theologian to be considered a heretic. But they also feel strongly, as one leading prelate put it, that "Jim has gone off on his own," without regard to the thoughts and judgments of his peers -and a bishop is above all a symbol of unity within the church. At the same time, the Episcopal hierarchy shuddered at the thought of a heresy trial's impact...
Belief & Creed. Certainly there was nothing more calculated to make Pike appear to many churchmen as a sympathetic and possibly heroic figure than the idea of trying him as a heretic. However exasperated they may be by Pike's antidogmatism, Episcopalians generally seem...
...share their bishops' feeling that a trial was out of order. However much they may wince at his gaucheries or blanch at his glib demythologizing of church teachings, plenty of theologians agree with what Pike is trying to do, if not with the way he does it. Pike, says Episcopal Bishop Stephen Bayne, a member of the committee that drafted the statement, "has awakened a lot of people to the fact that a lot of theology is wordmongering-and that there is nothing behind the words." Cambridge University Theologian Hugh Montefiore admires Pike for "putting aside the intricacies...
From another viewpoint, some radical Christian thinkers shrug off Pike's intellectual wrestling with doctrine as simply uninteresting. "The younger men don't even raise the issue of the Virgin...
...hungry sheep" who have never seen one. A radically aggressive atheism demands God's death for the sake of human freedom. New philosophies stare uncomprehendingly at seemingly static Christian doctrines 1,500 years old. For Christians, the age of anxiety is the age of ebbing faith, and Bishop Pike is not the only prophet crying out for the church to restate, reshape, renew. "Now is the time to renew, while there are still people in the church to renew with," he exhorts. "This is no time for fastidiousness, but one for boldness of stating what we can affirm...