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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...
...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...