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A Passionate Pilgrim
David M. Robertson
其他書名
A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2007-12-18
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
Religion / Christianity / Episcopalian
Religion / Christian Church / History
ISBN
0307424499
9780307424495
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kc6l3Cos440C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.