HONEST TO GOD
Honest to God is a book written by the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich John A. T. Robinson, criticising traditional Christian theology. It aroused a storm of controversy on its original publication by SCM Press in 1963. Robinson had already achieved notoriety by his defence of the publication of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Robinson’s own evaluation of Honest to God, found in his subsequent book Exploration into God (1967), stated that the chief contribution of this book was its successful synthesis of the work of seemingly opposed theologians Paul Tillich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Rudolf Bultmann. (More from Wikipedia)
As reported in Wikipedia: “In 1963, the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, John A. T. Robinson, published a controversial but popular book, Honest to God, urging the nation to reject traditional church teachings on morality and the concept of God as an ‘old man in the sky’, and instead embrace a universal ethic of love.” John Lennon quoted this book in his Chicago press conference.
(September 2014)
