Death of God in Modern Theology

Honest to God, by John A. T. Robinson. Westminster, $1.65 (paper)

While the general lay Christian reading public has an idea that Bonhoeffer, Bultmann, and Tillich have been saying deep and profound things about the Christian faith, the obscurity and inaccessibility of their real meaning has minimized the effect of their writing. It has remained for a former Cambridge University don, sometime New Testament scholar, and present bishop of Woolwich, Dr. John A. T. Robinson, to make their implications clear to the general public. That the general public is hungry for some kind of clarification of Christian concepts has been clearly indicated by the phenomenal sale, for a theological work, of his 141-page paperback Honest to God, which was the best-selling non-fiction. work in England in 1963. Although in America the promotional value of having a bishop of the established church “publicly demonstrate that he is not a Christian” (London Times) is lacking, the American edition is also selling well.

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Honest to God, by John A. T. Robinson. Westminster, $1.65 (paper)

While the general lay Christian reading public has an idea that Bonhoeffer, Bultmann, and Tillich have been saying deep and profound things about the Christian faith, the obscurity and inaccessibility of their real meaning has minimized the effect of their writing. It has remained for a former Cambridge University don, sometime New Testament scholar, and present bishop of Woolwich, Dr. John A. T. Robinson, to make their implications clear to the general public. That the general public is hungry for some kind of clarification of Christian concepts has been clearly indicated by the phenomenal sale, for a theological work, of his 141-page paperback Honest to God, which was the best-selling non-fiction. work in England in 1963. Although in America the promotional value of having a bishop of the established church “publicly demonstrate that he is not a Christian” (London Times) is lacking, the American edition is also selling well.