Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REV.) LEONARD P. WITTLINGER St. Mark's Episcopal Church Palo Alto, Calif...
...enslave the intellect. At least Bishop Pike is searching for the historical (and theological) truth of the Incarnation, cutting through man-made accretions that are unnecessary for the Christian to believe and that are great stumbling blocks to the honest, intelligent, truth-seeking minds of the younger generation. (THE REV.) ERNEST W. COCKRELL Newton, Mass...
...laymen feel that they can calmly decide and discuss among themselves what they are and are not prepared to accept. "It's been a long time since the doctrine of the Trinity was cocktail-party conversation," says the Rev. John M. Krumm, rector of Manhattan's Episcopal Ascension Church...
...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...
Likewise, the Trinitarian formula, baldly stated, can be impervious to human comprehension, instead of being a meaningful mystery. But not many churchmen are prepared to toss it overboard entirely. The Rev. Lester Kinsolving, an Episcopal priest in California and a young follower of Pike's, finds that "it's logical to me-I say water, steam and ice." Paul Tillich argued that the three-in-one concept was not a quantitative definition of God but a qualitative expression of the processes of divine life...