This article is about the Anglican bishop. For other people named John Robinson who have also served as bishops, see Bishop John Robinson
John Arthur Thomas Robinson (1919 in Canterbury, England – December 5, 1983 at Cambridge) was a New Testament scholar, author and a former Anglican Bishop of Woolwich,[1] England. He was a lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Dean of Trinity College[2] until his death in 1983 from cancer.[3]Robinson was considered a major force in shaping liberal Christian theology. Along with Harvard theologian Harvey Cox, he spearheaded the field of secular theology and, like William Barclay, he was a believer in universal salvation.[4]
His book Honest to God caused controversy, as it called on Christians to view of God as the "Ground of Being" rather than as a supernatural being "out there". In his later books, he championed early dates and apostolic authorship for the gospels, largely without success.[5]
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