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

England

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 theologian.

Life

He was the son of George Moberly

George Moberly

George Moberly , English divine, was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford.After a distinguished academic career he became head master of Winchester in 1835. This post he resigned in 1866, and retired to the Rectory of St. Mary's Church, Brighstone, Isle of Wight, he was also a Canon...

, Bishop of Salisbury

Bishop of Salisbury

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, and faithfully maintained the traditions of his father's teaching. Educated at Twyford School

Twyford School

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, Winchester

Winchester College

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 and New College, Oxford

New College, Oxford

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, he was appointed senior student of Christ Church

Christ Church, Oxford

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 in 1867 and tutor in 1869. In 1876 he went out with Bishop Copleston

Reginald Stephen Copleston

The Most Rev Reginald Stephen Copleston DD was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the second half of the 19th century and the very start of the 20th....

 to Ceylon for six months.

After his return he became the first head of St Stephen's House, Oxford

St Stephen's House, Oxford

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 (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, Walter Kerr Hamilton

Walter Kerr Hamilton

Walter Kerr Hamilton was the Anglican Bishop of Salisbury from 27 March 1854 to 1 August 1869.He was born in 1808, educated at Eton College, tutored by Thomas Arnold, and then attended Christ Church College, University of Oxford, where he took a first class degree in Greats. He was elected to a...

. In 1892 Lord Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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 made him Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford. In 1901, he became Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Edward VII

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

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.

After a long period of delicate health he died at Christ Church.

He was the father of Walter Hamilton Moberly

Walter Hamilton Moberly

Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly, GBE, KCB, Kt, DSO was a British academic.-Life:The son of Rev. Robert Campbell Moberly and the grandson of George Moberly, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford...

 and Robert Hamilton Moberly

Robert Hamilton Moberly

Robert Hamilton Moberly was the 7th Anglican Bishop of Stepney from 1936 until 1952 when he was appointed Dean of Salisbury. He was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family in 1884 and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a...

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Works

His chief writings were:

• 1889: "The Incarnation as the Basis of Dogma", an essay in Lux Mundi
  Lux mundi
  Lux Mundi: A series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation is a collection of 12 essays from liberal Anglo-Catholic theologians and edited by the future Bishop of Oxford, Charles Gore, in 1889....
  
  
• 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 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.