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

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