Word: reductionists
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...Reductionist Pike's case reduces to this: the question is not whether he is right or wrong, but whether he is Episcopalian. His non-transcendent, non-omnipotent, non-Trinitarian, nonChristian, nonBiblical god does not represent a new description of the Christian God, but a new god. As long as he holds such beliefs as a member of a Christian church, he shows himself to be without the character to stand for what he believes without the support of those whom his robes deceive...
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...