Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four times since Pike was ordained a priest in 1946, groups of Episcopal clergymen have denounced him as a heretic and demanded that he be brought to trial...
Honesty & Openness. A man of considerable wit and charm, Pike inspires intense devotion among many of those who have worked with him. "I am willing to fight for him forever. He is a great modern prophet," says Architect George Livermore, a trustee of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. Cambridge University Theologian Donald MacKinnon calls Pike "a man of integrity and humility, with a remarkable honesty and openness of mind." Even Billy Graham, whose theological views are poles apart from Pike's, considers him a friend...
...other hand, Pike is widely excoriated as a grandstanding publicist, a Unitarian in Episcopal robes, even an atheist in disguise. The Rev. Glen Braswell, executive secretary of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, fumes at Pike as "a prophet of the devil. He UPI is nonChristian, and as a theologian he is attempting to destroy the Christian faith...
Proud of its tradition as the middle way between Rome and Reformation, the Anglican Communion has traditionally tolerated a degree of latitude in doctrinal interpretation that baffles outsiders. Yet there are plenty of Episcopalians who feel that Pike has long since crossed the frontier of permissible heterodoxy...
...Irresponsible." Last month's accusation was the most serious. Shortly after Pike resigned as Bishop of California to become a resident member of Robert Hutchins' Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara, South Florida's Anglo-Catholic Bishop Henry Louttit, backed by more than 30 other prelates, drew up a petition calling for a church court to try Pike for heresy. The move was forestalled only when the House of Bishops agreed to approve a statement of principles that denounced Pike's theologizing as "offensive" and "irresponsible"-terms as harsh as any church...