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Instant Theology. Bishop Pike, who unlocked the discussion, is far from being a man talking his way toward atheism, and his reductionist theologizing is seriously intended to help put Christian faith on a surer, sounder footing. What Christianity needs, Pike proposes, is "more belief, fewer beliefs." In the name of this jaunty slogan, Pike seems quite willing to jettison 20 centuries of Christian doctrinal development, if necessary, to preserve and emphasize what he considers the central, essential and irreducible message of the church: God as the loving personal ground of existence, Jesus as the suffering servant in whom...
...Protestant seminaries, such ideas are neither new nor, when properly elucidated, all that unnerving. Yet to many-perhaps most-Christians, they still have the ring of a betrayal of the Gospel. And besides the fact that it comes from a bishop, this doctrinal iconoclasm offends these people because Pike sets it forth in a sloganeering, Batmannerly, instant-theology style that seems almost calculated to scandalize them. Trinity...
...Pike's second. In 1938, he married Jane Alvies, a girl he had known at Hollywood High; they were divorced two years later. * Actually, the Koran says four...
...cracks Pike, is the word for "a committee God." Too many Christian doctrines are "excess luggage." As though reducing Christ to the level of the teenybopper, Pike describes Jesus as "the most...
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...