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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...
...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 and joyousness in acting...
When it came to economic matters, the ulema found themselves bedeviled by subtle problems of distinction that would have tried the ingenuity of the prophet himself, who lived in a less complex fiscal age. In general, Islamic scholars have agreed that government-sponsored pension systems, social-welfare payments, and the use of bank checks and letters of credit are compatible with tradition. But even though loans at interest are made by all Arab-nation banks, most Islamic scholars still stoutly maintain that this is nothing less than the sin of usury. Others feel that even fire, death and accident insurance...
Jiddu Krishnamurti came to Harvard not as a prophet, a mystic, nor an expert on yoga (all of which he was labeled in an advertisement) but rather as one of those rare men who can change your life. A "mutation of the mind" was his prescription. "A radical change in the psyche and a new awareness...