Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reformation? Can it be? If thinkers like Bishops Robinson and Pike prevail, perhaps the church will again deserve my consideration...
...radical theologians who want Christianity to travel light are in the seminaries. Two of the most persuasive are consecrated bishops of the Anglican faith: John Robinson, the suffragan of Woolwich, and James A. Pike of San Francisco. In his bestselling (750,000 copies) Honest to God, Robinson proposed, among other near heresies, that Christianity substitute Tillich's concept of God as "the ground of all being" for the old notion of a transcendent personal deity "out there." In subsequent writings, Robinson has carried on his theological demolition work in other areas. Christian Morals Today argues for a flexible ethic...
Packaging v. Product. A similar demand for doctrinal caution is voiced by Pike in his recent A Time for Christian Candor. He argues that the church keeps the treasure of its revelation in "earthly vessels," and that it is idolatry to accept as eternally true what is only historically conditioned. He suggests that Christianity abandon the notion of the Trinity, which has now become a pagan tritheism instead of what the church fathers intended to say. To avoid confusion of the "packaging" with the "product," Pike would do away with all spatial images of God, everything that suggests a distinction...
...church "seeking to lose itself in the world" from becoming just another humanitarian agency? German Theologian Helmut Thielicke feels that contemporary efforts to demythologize the Gospel may produce "overintellectualized" theologies comprehensible only to doctoral students in philosophy. Other churchmen question whether the theological striptease proposed by Bishops Robinson and Pike amounts to anything more than the rediscovery of classic Unitarianism...
...area turned a profit with its very first year of full operations last season) with the facts that the state of Vermont is spending heavily on road improvement in the area in anticipation of an expanding tourist industry, and that soon a nearby exchange to the Interstate Turn-pike will put Boston less than two and one-half hours away, the future doesn't look too risky at that...