Biography bishop james passionate pike pilgrim

  • Capturing the many facets of controversial Episcopal bishop James A. Pike, this fascinating biography explores his impact on contemporary theology and on the social fabric of his time.
  • 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.
  • James A. Pike, the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, was a man of many faces.

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    Lost Shepherd

    A Passionate Pilgrim:
    A Biography Of Bishop James A. Pike
    by David M. Robertson
    Knopf,
    ( pages, $, hardcover)

    reviewed by Ian Hunter

    Episcopal Bishop James Pike may be a forgotten man today, but four decades ago he made a big splash in the ecclesiastical pond, albeit usually because of self-aggrandizing, sometimes heretical, remarks. David Robertson, the author of previous biographies of the slave rebel Denmark Vesey and of American Secretary of State James Byrnes, demonstrates in this carefully researched and lively biography that there was ever less to Bishop Pike than met the eye. More important, he traces, through one bishop&#;s career, the sad decline of the Episcopal Church to its present ribald state.

    Pike Enlarged

    James Albert Pike was born on St. Valentine&#;s Day , in Oklahoma. His father died when he was two, and thenceforth he was raised by a hard-working, indomitable, but sometimes smothering mother, Pearl, perhaps the only love that

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    A Passionate Pilgrim: A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike

    James A. Pike, the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, was a man of many faces. To some he was an normbrytare, a man decades ahead of his time who modernized the Church and rendered it more progressive and open to inquiry. To others he was a heretic, who polarized and desecrated the Church. Always controversial and charismatic, he took America bygd storm in the s with his best-selling books, and his weekly television talk show, Dean Pike, which won him a cover story in Time. A Passionate Pilgrim fryst vatten 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.

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    James Pike

    American Episcopal bishop (–)

    For other uses, see James Pike (disambiguation).

    The Right Reverend


    James Pike

    Pike in

    ChurchEpiscopal Church
    SeeCalifornia
    ElectedFebruary 4,
    In office–
    PredecessorKarl M. Block
    SuccessorC. Kilmer Myers
    OrdinationDecember 21, (deacon)
    November 1, (priest)
    by&#;Angus Dun
    ConsecrationMay 15,
    by&#;Henry Knox Sherrill
    Born()February 14,

    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

    Diedc. September 2, () (aged&#;56)
    Wadi Mashash, Israel
    DenominationAnglican (prev. Roman Catholic)
    Spouse
    • Jane Alvies (m; civilly div)
    • Esther Yanovsky (m;div. )

    • Diane Kennedy

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    Alma mater

    James Albert Pike (February 14, –c.&#;September 3–7, ) was an American Episcopalbishop, accused heretic, writer, and one of the first mainline religious figures to appear regularly on television.

    Pike's outspoken, and to some of his fellow bishops,