A Passionate Pilgrim: A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (663 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375411879 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Sobering, Revisionist Look at the 1960s" according to Kevin Killian. Robertson, a writer new to me but apparently one of some renown whose other books I will be sure to look out for, has written a sobering account of the 196os through a particular prism, the charismatic Episcopal bishop Jim Pike. Pike was a radical theologian and a moving speaker, whose positioning of himself as an effective force for change took him to what were pretty much the limits of free expression within the church through the 1950s and exploded, as did so much else, in the 1960s.Here in San Francisco he is still remembered, if vaguely, as the man who held press conferences (some of. As clear as day This is the biography of Pike that we've been waiting for. Robertson's achievment is awesome and this book is marvelous. Pike's many difficulties -alcoholism, ambition, theological posturing, difficulties in his family, with his women- are finally choreographed into the submissive background where they belong, as the three-dimensional Pike emerges broken and whole - a man addicted to action. Believing, warring, loving, campaigning, preaching, living and dying - Pike sat astride the rhythm of unrelenting action, for good or ill. Those who look to the inconsistencies in James Pike to find t. "A REVEALING BIOGRAPHY OF THE CONTROVERSIAL '60s BISHOP" according to Steven H Propp. The case of James A. Pike (191A REVEALING BIOGRAPHY OF THE CONTROVERSIAL '60s BISHOP The case of James A. Pike (1913-1969) is sad. Once the dean of the largest Protestant church in the world, with a highly-watched TV show, after three arraignments for heresy (see If This Be Heresy, and The Bishop Pike Affair: Scandals of Conscience and Heresy, Relevance and Solemnity in the Contemporary Church (William Stringfellow Reprint)), he resigned his bishopric. Pike's son, Jim Jr., tragically took his own life in 1966 (Pg. 159-160), and a heartbroken Pike turned to psychic séances (see pg. 166-167 & 188-190, as well as Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead)), and Pi. -1969) is sad. Once the dean of the largest Protestant church in the world, with a highly-watched TV show, after three arraignments for heresy (see If This Be Heresy, and The Bishop Pike Affair: Scandals of Conscience and Heresy, Relevance and Solemnity in the Contemporary Church (William Stringfellow Reprint)), he resigned his bishopric. Pike's son, Jim Jr., tragically took his own life in 1966 (Pg. 159-160), and a heartbroken Pike turned to psychic séances (see pg. 166-167 & 188-190, as well as Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead)), and Pi
To others he was a heretic, dismissing as "excess baggage" classic Christian dogmas such as the virgin birth and the Trinity. An adult convert to the Episcopal Church, Pike was ordained at 31, became dean of New York's Episcopal cathedral before turning 40 and was elected bishop of California at 45. All rights reserved. Robertson's account, at once sympathetic and probing, provides a fascinating and timely backdrop to many of the struggles faced by mainline Protestant churches today. Repeatedly accused—but never convicted—of heresy, Bishop Pike announced his departure from the Episcopal Church several months before his accidental death in the wilderness near the Dead Sea. As he rose to national prominence, however, he was divorced twice, his elder son and one of his mistresses committed suicide and his drinking veered out of control. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . To some he wa
To others he was a heretic, who polarized and desecrated the Church. A Passionate Pilgrim is an illuminating biography of Pike, and an examination of the tragedies, triumphs, and difficulties that shaped his spectacular rise to fame and his mysterious death in the Israeli desert.. To some he was an iconoclast, a man decades ahead of his time who modernized the Church and rendered it more progressive and open to inquiry. Always controversial and charismatic, he took America by storm in the 1960s with his best-selling books, and his weekly television talk show, Dean Pike, which won him a cover story in Time. Pike, the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, was a man of many faces. James A