It is my own belief that the explanation for the
enormous sale of Honest to God is simply that great numbers of men and women who wish to be both modern and Christian found in that book a presentation of Christianity which on the one hand they felt was
absolutely honest and which on the other hand (and for the first time)
opened to them the basic meaning of what we may style «the religious question»: what man is, what his
world is like, how one can find significance and dignity for living, and the like.