Retail Price: $32.00
Web Price: $25.60
ISBN 10: 1-55635-326-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-55635-326-0
Pages: 288
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 06/04/2007
Division: Wipf and Stock
Category: Church history
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The Bishop Pike Affair
Scandals of Conscience and Heresy, Relevance and Solemnity in the Contemporary Church
By William Stringfellow, Anthony Towne
Introducing two Stringfellow/Towne reprints about Bishop Pike:
The Bishop Pike Affair
The Death and Life of Bishop Pike
The Bishop Pike Affair presents the climactic showdown between James A. Pike and his peers at the Wheeling meeting of the Episcopal House of Bishops, in October 1966. It dramatized for millions the struggles for reform and relevance within the church in the mid-twentieth century.
This book reveals the whole chronicle of the historic controversy. Thousands of documents were researched. The authors disentangle the web of political, racial, theological, traditional, and personal interests that account for the accusation that Bishop Pike is a heretic and that culminated in his censure at Wheeling.
The authors relate The Bishop Pike Affair to celebrated heresy trials of the past, probe the issues of fairness and due process of law, explore the ethics of the fraternity of bishops, examine the dynamics of the Episcopal Church as an institution, and expose the design of the "ultra-right whites" to stage a coup d'eglise in America.
Author - William Stringfellow
Author - Anthony Towne
"This book will concern and dismay every thoughtful person who reads it, especially those of the Christian faith. It is dismaying to discover, although perhaps one should not have been surprised, that the ranks of Episcopal bishops contain as high a percentage of clowns and petty, vindictive men as to the organizations of secular professions."
—Ralph McGill, The Atlanta Constitution
"A shaking and sensitive book of extraordinary power. As a work of prophetic insight and conviction, it will hold a place in history."
—Malcolm Boyd, author of Are You Running With Me, Jesus?
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