Honest to God is a book written by the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich John A.T. Robinson, criticising traditional Christian theology.
The book was controversial even before its publication, as an interview about it with Robinson in The Observer bore the provocative headline "Our Image of God Must Go".
Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, thought that Robinson's theology was weak, and that he had only a vague understanding of many of the issues he brought into the mainstream.
Eugene Fairweather was another Anglo-Catholic who raised similar concerns, especially with respect to the apparent conviction (which he associated especially with Canon Max Warren of Westminster Abbey but also with many others) that what matters most is not the adequacy of the content of the book to the truth but rather the sincerity and courage displayed by its author.
[6] In his last interview before his death, C. S. Lewis was asked, "What do you think of the controversial new book Honest to God, by John Robinson, the bishop of Woolwich?