Book description
Originally published in 1963, Honest to God ignited passionate debate about the nature of Christian belief and doctrine in the white heat of a secular revolution. In addition, it articulated the anxieties of a generation who saw these traditional fundamentals as no longer acceptable or necessarily credible. Reissued on the…
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1 author picked Honest to God as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a book that rocked me and a whole generation back in the 1960s and is now considered a classic in radical theology.
John Robinson was a radical Anglican bishop who managed to pack an explosive theological punch into a feisty and fairly short book, its brevity being one of its merits. He threw theism into doubt by drawing upon the revolutionary theologies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (religionless Christianity), Rudolf Bultmann (demythologizing Christianity), and Paul Tillich (God is the ground of being, not the Supreme Being).
The book became a sensation, a best seller, and set the stage for a…
From John's list on now that religion has made itself unbelievable.
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