Bob Robinson
Senior Research Fellow
Theology
Laidlaw College
New Zealand
Biography
Bob graduated from Laidlaw College in 1967 before Anglican ministerial training at Ridley College where he completed his BD. He gained an MA (Hons) in Religious Studies and Philosophy from the University of Canterbury in 1975. After parish ministry in Shirley, Christchurch, he served in Singapore with the Church Missionary Society and began research into the Gospel and Hinduism which resulted in a PhD in Theology from London University. From 1984 Bob was General Secretary of the NZ Church Missionary Society. He is the author of Christians Meeting Hindus and Jesus and the Religions. He served as the Dean of Studies in Christchurch from 1996-2007.
Research Interest
Religious studies
Publications
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‘Responsive essay. Reply to Bart Abbott’s, “One God to Rule Them All: Religious Exclusivity as a Source of Evangelism and Human Rights Abuseâ€.’ Sacred Tribes Journal, 8.1 (Fall 2013), 35-44.
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“Inter-faith Evangelicals? Oxymoron or Opportunity? A Model to Assist Theologically Conservative Christians towards Intentional Dialogue and a Wider Ecumenism,†in Andrew Pierce, Oliver Schurgraf (Hrsg.), Den Blick weiten: Wenn Ökumene den Religionen begegnet (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt), 253-67.
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‘“Cancer is not a disease. It is a phenomenonâ€: Finding God in a cancer-strewn world’ in Tim Meadowcroft and Caroline Blyth (eds), Spirituality and Cancer (Auckland: Accent Publications, 2015), 187-206
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‘Has Raimundo Panikkar written “one of the best and least read meditations on the Trinity†in the twentieth century (Rowan Williams)? An appraisal.’ [Forthcoming in Trinity symposium, edited by Martin Sutherland, 2016]
