Robert Campbell Moberly (26 July 1845 – 8 June 1903) was an English

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and the first principal of

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(1876–1878).

Life

He was the son of

George Moberly George Moberly (10 October 1803 – 6 July 1885) was an English cleric who was headmaster of Winchester College, and then served as Bishop of Salisbury from 1869 until his death. Life He was born in St Petersburg, Russia in 1803, the seventh s ...

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, and faithfully maintained the traditions of his father's teaching. His sister was the writer

Charlotte Anne Moberly Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Moberly (1846–1937) was an English academic, and first Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. Her time-travel book ''An Adventure'', written in 1911 with fellow academic Eleanor Jourdain, became a bestseller. Fami ...

. Educated at

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, 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 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 chaplain, he accepted the college living of Great Budworth in Cheshire in 1880, and the same year married Alice, the daughter of his father's predecessor,

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. In 1892,

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made him Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at the

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and a canon of Christ Church Cathedral in that city. He was appointed an honorary chaplain to

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in July 1898, and in early January 1901 was appointed Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Her Majesty. The Queen died later that month, and Moberly was re-appointed Chaplain-in-Ordinary to her successor,

King Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a ...

. After a long period of delicate health he died at Christ Church. He was the father of

Walter Hamilton Moberly Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly (20 October 1881 – 31 January 1974) was a British academic. Life The son of the Rev. Robert Campbell Moberly and the grandson of George Moberly, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Moberly w ...

and Robert Hamilton Moberly.

Works

His chief writings were: *1889: "The Incarnation as the Basis of Dogma", an essay in '' Lux Mundi'' *1891: ''Belief in a Personal God'', a paper *1896: ''Reason and Religion'', a protest against the limitation of the reason to the understanding *1897: ''Ministerial Priesthood'' *1901: ''Atonement and Personality''. In this last work, by which he is chiefly known, he aimed at presenting an explanation and a vindication of the doctrine of the

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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. * Undenominationalism (1902)

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from Project Canterbury 1903 deaths 1845 births English theologians People educated at Winchester College Regius Professors of Moral and Pastoral Theology Alumni of New College, Oxford People educated at Twyford School Principals of St Stephen's House, Oxford {{Anglican-stub