John A.T. Robinson

Who was John A.T. Robinson?

John Arthur Thomas Robinson was an English New Testament scholar, author and the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich.

He was a lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Dean of Trinity College until his death in 1983 from cancer. 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.

His book Honest to God caused controversy, as it called on Christians to view 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.