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ROBERT See also: English theologian, was See also: born on the 26th of See also: July 1845
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He was the son of See also: George Moberly, See also: bishop of See also: Salisbury, and faithfully maintained the traditions of his See also: father's teaching
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Educated at Winchester and New See also: College, See also: Oxford, he was appointed See also: senior student of Christ See also: Church in 1867 and tutor in 1869
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In 1876 he went out with Bishop
See also: Copleston to See also: Ceylon for six months
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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, Walter Kerr See also: Hamilton
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In 1892
See also: Lord Salisbury made him Regius Professor of Pastoral See also: Theology of Oxford; and after a long See also: period of delicate See also: health he died at Christ Church on the 8th of See also: June 1903
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His chief writings were: An essay in Lux Mundi on " The Incarnation as the Basis of Dogma " (1889); a paper, Belief in a See also: Personal See also: God (1891); 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)
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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
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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 See also: Person of the Sufferer, the God-See also: Man
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