The Bishop Pike Affair
Scandals of Conscience and Heresy, Relevance and Solemnity in the Contemporary Church
by William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
300 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 x 0.60 in
- Paperback
- 9781556353260
- Published: June 2007
$36.00 / £32.00 / AU$49.00
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William Stringfellow was a practicing attorney and a prominent Episcopalian, who frequently contributed to legal and theological journals. After his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1956, he practiced some years in the East Harlem neighborhood in New York City, subsequently moving to Block Island, RI. When Daniel Berrigan was apprehended by the FBI at Stringfellow and Towne's home in 1969, the hosts were charged with "harboring a fugative."
Anthony Towne was a poet whose work appeared in such publications as The New Yorker. Best known for Excerpts from the Diaries of the Late God, he was a book review editor for Motive Magazine, founder of the Block Island Writers Guild, and collaborator with Stringfellow on a number of book projects.
"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?