John Robinson (Pastor)

John Robinson ( * 1575, † February 16, 1625 in Leiden ) was an English Puritan theologian.

Life

Robinson was educated at Queen Elizabeth's High School in Gainsborough ( Lincolnshire ). 1591 he studied theology and philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was ordained a priest of the Church of England. Under the influence of John Smyth Robinson was a few years later pastor of a Congregational church in separatist - Scrooby Manor ( Nottinghamshire ). In order to escape persecution by the Anglican state church, he emigrated in 1608 with his congregation from the Dutch Amsterdam. A year later he went to Leiden, where he studied Reformed theology at the university there. When the opportunity to set up your own colony in North America revealed returned part of the community in 1619 for a short time to England. Robinson helped with the preparations for the crossing of the Pilgrim Fathers aboard the Mayflower (1620 ). He himself remained with the other part of the community in the Netherlands. Before he could move to the Plymouth Colony, he died 1625th Robinson wrote several theological treatises with significantly Calvinist orientation, including a defense of the Synod of Dordrecht.