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A Passionate Pilgrim

A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike

A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike

By David M. Robertson

By David M. Robertson

By David M. Robertson

By David M. Robertson

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    About A Passionate Pilgrim

    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.

    About A Passionate Pilgrim

    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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    About David M. Robertson

    David M. Robertson is the author of two prior biographies, of the slave rebel, Denmark Vesey, and of former US Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, and is the author of a historical novel about John Wilkes Booth. His poetry has… More about David M. Robertson

    About David M. Robertson

    David M. Robertson is the author of two prior biographies, of the slave rebel, Denmark Vesey, and of former US Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, and is the author of a historical novel about John Wilkes Booth. His poetry has… More about David M. Robertson

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Religion

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 08, 2006 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375726163

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Religion

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 18, 2007 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307424495
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    Praise

    “Thoroughly engagingÉ. The Pike who emerges from these pages is a true voice without restraint. A fascinating story told by a first-rate historian.”
    –Douglas Brinkley

    “This spirited biography never lets goÉ[Robertson] keeps his view of the peripatetic Pike clear-eyed and even-handed.”–Providence Journal

    “At once sympathetic and probing, provides a fascinating and timely backdrop to many of the struggles faced by mainline Protestant churches today.” –Publishers Weekly

    “Meticulously researched and crisply writtenÉAn accurate, fair portrait of [a] complicated spiritual iconoclast and theological pioneer.” –Tucson Citizen

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