John Robinson (pastor)
John Robinson (* around 1575 in Sturton-le-Steeple, Nottinghamshire , † March 1, 1625 in Leiden ) was an English Puritan theologian .
Life
Robinson was at Queen Elizabeth's High School in Gainsborough ( Lincolnshire educated). In 1591 he studied theology and philosophy at Trinity College , Cambridge and was ordained a priest in the Church of England . A few years later, under the influence of John Smyth , Robinson was pastor of a separatist-congregational church in Scrooby Manor, Nottinghamshire . To avoid persecution by the Anglican State Church, he emigrated with his parish to Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 1608 . A year later he went to Leiden , where he studied Reformed theology at the university there. When the opportunity arose to establish their own colony in North America, part of the community returned to England for a short time in 1619. Robinson helped prepare the Pilgrim Fathers' passage aboard the Mayflower (1620). He himself stayed with the other part of the community in the Netherlands. Before he could move to the Plymouth Colony, he died in 1625. Robinson wrote several theological treatises with a clear Calvinist orientation, including a defense of the Synod of Dordrecht .
literature
- Thomas Crosby: The History of the English Baptists from the Reformation to the Beginning of the Reign of King George I . Robinson, Hodges & Ward, London 1738/40 (4 vol.).
- Adam Taylor: The History of the English General Baptists . Self-published, London 1818 (2 vols.).
- John C. Carlile: The Story of the English Baptists . Clarke Press, London 1905.
- Franz Wöhrer: Robinson, John. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 452-454.
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Nathaniel Philbrick : Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. Viking, New York 2006. ISBN 0-670-03760-5
- German by Norbert Juraschitz: Mayflower: Departure in the New World . Blessing, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89667-229-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Clifton E. Olmstead: History of Religion in the United States . Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1960, pp. 18, 64-67
- ↑ M. Schmidt: Robinson, John . In: Religion Past and Present . 3rd edition, Volume V, Tübingen 1961, column 1131
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Robinson, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English Puritan theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1575 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sturton-le-Steeple, Nottinghamshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1625 |
| Place of death | Suffer |