Book Review: Darkness Visible - A Christian Appraisal of Freemasonry, by Walton Hannah

Wed, 13 May 2020 07:20:00 GMT

It was in January 1951 that Hannah first aired the whole question: Should a Christian be a Freemason? in an article under that title which was published in Theology, an academic magazine produced under the auspices of the SPCK and edited at that time by Canon Alec Vidler, who was chaplain to King George VI. Predictably this caused a considerable stir in the Establishment in England, since both the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, were members of the Craft, along with a considerable portion of the clergy and hierarchy of the Church of England. For the very first time a voice had been raised loud and clear within the Church of England questioning in the name of Christ the hitherto unchallenged belief that membership of the Lodge was entirely compatible with one's profession of Christianity.