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John Arthur Thomas Robinson (16 May 1919 – 5 December 1983) was an English New Testament scholar, author and the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich.〔.〕 He was a lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Dean of Trinity College〔.〕 until his death in 1983 from cancer.〔.〕 Robinson was considered a major force in shaping liberal Christian theology. Along with Harvard theologian Harvey Cox, he spearheaded the field of secular theology and, like William Barclay, he was a believer in universal salvation.〔.〕 == Early life, ministry and academic career == Robinson was born in 1919 in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, England, where his father was a canon. He studied for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge, after which his first position, in 1945, was as a curate at St Matthew Moorfields Church in Bristol. The vicar there was Mervyn Stockwood. In 1948, Robinson became chaplain of Wells Theological College, where he wrote his first book, ''In the End, God''. In 1951, he was appointed Fellow and Dean of Clare College, Cambridge and a lecturer in divinity at Cambridge University.〔.〕 Following an invitation from Mervyn Stockwood, by then the Bishop of Southwark, Robinson became the Bishop of Woolwich in 1959.〔Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1977-79, Oxford University Press〕 The appointment of Robinson as a suffragan bishop was in Stockwood's gift, and whilst the Archbishop of Canterbury (at that point Geoffrey Fisher) questioned the appointment on the grounds that he believed Robinson at that point would be doing more valuable work as a theologian, he accepted that once he had given advice he had "done all that it was proper for him to do" and proceeded to consecrate Robinson to the episcopate. Following a ten-year period at Woolwich, Robinson returned to Cambridge in 1969 as Fellow and Dean of Chapel at Trinity College, where he did not hold a teaching post but lectured and continued to write. Robinson was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1983 and died later that year, on 5 December, in Arncliffe, North Yorkshire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Robinson (bishop of Woolwich)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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