Volume 9, Number 9 · November 23, 1967
Hello Out There
By W.W. Bartley III
If This Be Heresy
by James A. Pike
Harper & Row, 205 pp., $4.95
The Bishop Pike Affair
by William Stringfellow, by Anthony Towne
Harper & Row, 266 pp., $4.95
For eleven months, between the meeting of the Episcopalian House of Bishops in Wheeling, West Virginia, of October 1966, and the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Seattle last month, Bishop James Pike had his fellow bishops virtually at his mercy. One of the few serious faults in the absorbing study William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne have written about their friend Bishop Pike's skirmishes with his colleagues was their decision to cast him as the underdog in a battle for freedom of expression.
Review, 2987 words
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