Baptist Heritage

ROBINSON, Henry Wheeler,

 engelischer baptistischer Alttestamentler, *7.2. 1872 in Northampton, + 12.5. 1945 in Oxford. - after difficult fatherless childhood - George Robinson, the father,übersiedelte still before the birth of its son after Südafrika, thusdaÃ? H. W. with its gestrengen GroÃ?tante Helen Robinson buildup - R steps. fünfzehnjährig as an apprentice in a Lederwarengeschäft, trainsitself further however on evening institutes and acquires a qualifiedSchulabschluÃ?. To 28.3. 1888 its baptism, and R take place. beschlieÃ?t religious career to hit. After one year R refers studies of the jurisprudence at the LondonerRegent's park college. the Universität Edinburgh, where it is graduated to 1895. R. changes on the Oxforder Manfield college, where it verstärkt itselfthe study of the old person of will dedicates. 1900, in the year of its EheschlieÃ?ung with the druggist daughterAlice Laura Ashford (from the marriage one son and two Töchter wentout), erhält R. the resound Houghton Syriac Prize; R was financial. by the Kennicott scholarship secured. Is from 1903 to 1903 R. Prediger in Pitlochry, Tayside (Scotland), from 1903 to 1906 inCoventry. 1906 übernimmt R. the Tutorium at the Rawdon Baptist college, and 1920 becomes R. Prinzipal at the Londoner Regent's park college. Here it operates the transfer of the institute after Oxford, where itis from 1937 to 1939 the first free-church theological dekan (ChairmanOF the board OF the faculty OF theology). - attention excited R.s Monographie of über Hosea (s.u.). R. hält the marriage experiences Hoseas für material; Hoseas love tooand suffering from Gomer symbol light of God Verhältnis to Israel andbecomes from R. as refutation of the conception of the Leidenschaftslosigkeit of GodaufgefaÃ?t (Hos 11,8f.!). The Verständnis of the alttestamentlichen doing being issuedconnection enriched R. by the realization, daÃ? the individual representation of thecollective in the good one as in the Bösen by a Â"corporatepersonalityÂ" (s.u.; vgl. Jes 53) a substantial aspect of act sequence means. - GroÃ?e of parts of R.s Bible-theological publications have their work-biographic backgroundin a heavy illness R.s (1913). - R. received the theological honour doctorates (DD.) the Universitäten Edinburgh (1926) and Manchester (1943). Works: Deuteronomy and Joshua. Introductions, revised version with notes map and index (The CenturyBible), Edinburgh 1907; The Christian Doctrine OF one, London 1911;Baptistic Principles before the Rise OF Baptistic Churches, London1911 (dt.: Baptisti Grundsätze. Dt. v. Eberhard jug [ municipality u. Ggw. 3], Kassel 1931); The Religious Ideas OF the old will, London 1913 =19477; The Psychology and Metaphysic OF Â"Thus saith YahwehÂ": ZAW 41(1923), 1ff.; The Life and Faith OF the Baptists, London 1927; Old will essay,London 1927; The Parables OF Jesus in relation ton of His Ministry,Chicago 1928; The Christian Experience OF the Holy Spirit, London1930; Canonicity and inspiration: Expository Times 47 (1935/1936),119-123; The Veil OF God, Oxford 1936; The Hebrew Conception OFCorporate Personality, in: Paul Volz/Friedrich Stummer/Johannes Hempel(Hrsg.), u. Nature of the ATs (BZAW 66) (Berlin 1936), 49-62; Some Principles OFHebrew Metrics: ZAW 54 (1936), 28-43; Jeremiah 14,4-5: ExpositoryTimes 49 (1937/1938), 214-218; The CROSS OF job, London 19382; (OD) record and Revelation, Oxford 1938; The Bible in its Ancient andEnglish version, Oxford 1940; Suffering, human and Divine, London1940; The Hist. OF Israel, its facts and factors, London 1941, 1954; Studies in Hist. and Rel., London 1942 (Bibliogr.); Redemption and Revelation into the Actuality OF Hist., London 1942; Inspiration and Revelation into the old will, London1946; Two Hebrew Prophets: Studies in Hosea and Ezekiel, London 1948;The CROSS OF Hosea, Philadelphia 1949 (= Two Hebrew Prophets [ s.o.], 11-61). Lit.: E. A. Payne, H. W. R., London 1946; - Emil G. Kraeling, The old will since the Ref. (Lutterworth LIBRARY 47), London 1955, 216ff.; - Manfred Dreytza, theol. Use v. RUAH in RK. A word u. satzsemantische Stud., GieÃ?en/Basel 1990; - DNB 1941-1950 (Oxford/London 1959 [ = Repr. 1976]), 727-729; - RGG3 V (1961), 1131. Klaus Gunther Wesseling The latter Ã"nderung: 17.02.1999