The Difference in Being a Christian Today

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With sharpness and enthusiasm Bishop John Robinson here sums up what he sees happening in the religious revolution of our time. In 1963| when he was Bishop of Woolwich| he caused a world-wide stir by his Honest to God| but that protest against Christianity’s tired images and conventions was mainly negative. He wrote books which were more positive| but as a busy bishop lacked time to unify his teaching. Now he has returned to Cambridge University as Dean of Trinity College Chapel| and in this book – the first since his return – he has achieved an exciting survey of the way| truth and life now opening up. No institution and no tradition can escape ‘the end of the stable state’| Dr Robinson argues; Christianity must change. And no Christain can contract out of humanity; Christians are human| no less and no more. But today’s Christianity is finding a new freedom to show what being human means| and a vision is possible of tomorrow’s layman and tomorrow’s priest.