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

Authors: Robertson, David M.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: REL108020, BIO018000, REL027000
ISBN: 9780307424495, Related ISBNs: 0307424499, 0375411879, 0375726160, 9780307424495, 9780375411878
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: James A. Pike, the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, was a man of many faces. 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. To others he was a heretic, who polarized and desecrated the Church. 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. 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.
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