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ROBERT CAMPBELL MOBERLY (1845-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 635 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT CAMPBELL MOBERLY (1845-1903)  ,
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English theologian, was born on the 26th of
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July 1845 . He was the son of George Moberly, bishop of Salisbury, and faithfully maintained the traditions of his
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father's teaching . Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he was appointed senior student of Christ Church in 1867 and tutor in 1869 . In 1876 he went out with Bishop Copleston to
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Ceylon for six months . After his return he became the first head of St Stephen's House, Oxford (1876-1878), and then, after presiding for two years over the Theological College at Salisbury, where he acted as his father's
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chaplain, he accepted the college living of
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Great Budworth in
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Cheshire in 188o, and the same
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year married Alice, the daughter of his father's predecessor, Walter Kerr Hamilton . In 1892 Lord Salisbury made him Regius Professor of Pastoral
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Theology of Oxford; and after a long period of delicate
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health he died at Christ Church on the 8th of
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June 1903 . His chief writings were: An essay in Lux Mundi on " The Incarnation as the Basis of Dogma " (1889); a paper, Belief in a
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Personal
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God (1891); Reason and Religion (1896), a
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pro-test against the limitation of the reason to the understanding; Ministerial Priesthood (1897); and
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Atonement and Personality (1901) . In this last
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work, by which he is chiefly known, he aimed at presenting an explanation and a vindication of the
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doctrine of the Atonement by the help of the conception of personality . Rejecting the retributive view of punishment, he describes the sufferings of Christ as those of the perfect " Penitent," and finds their expiatory value to lie in the Person of the Sufferer, the God-Man .

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