Robertson, Edwin (Hanton)

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ROBERTSON, Edwin (Hanton)

ROBERTSON, Edwin (Hanton). British, b. 1912. Genres: History, Theology/Religion, Biography, Translations. Career: Ordained Baptist minister; Silvertown Lubricants, London, England, research assistant, 1932- 35; pastor of Baptist churches in Stopsley, England, 1938-42, and St. Albans, England, 1942-47; senior control officer at British Foreign Office, German Section, West Germany, 1947-49; British Broadcasting Corp., London, assistant head of religious broadcasting, 1949-56; United Bible Societies, Geneva, study secretary, 1956-62; World Association for Christian Broadcasting, executive director, 1962-75; writer and broadcaster, 1952-; pastor, Baptist Church, Yeovil, England, 1961-64, London, Westbourne Park, 1971- 83, Hampstead, 1983-2001. Publications: Lund 1952, 1953; The Church on the Air, 1956; The Pastor of Buchenwald, 1956; Man's Estimate of Man, 1958; Tomorrow Is a Holiday, 1959; The Bible in Our Time, Vol. 1, 1960, Vol. 3, 1963; Take and Read, 1961, rev. ed., 1984; The New Translations of the Bible, 1961; Light in Darkness, 1961; Christians against Hitler, 1962; Amos, Hosea, Micah, Isaiah, 1968; Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, 1970; Corinthians One and Two, 1973; Local Broadcasting, 1974; Breakthrough, 1976; Chiara, 1978; (with E. Bonsall) The Dream of an Ideal City, 1978; Wycliffe, 1984; (with V. Phillips) The Wounded Healer, 1984; The Cost of Discipleship, 1987; The Shame and the Sacrifice, 1987, rev. ed., 1989; The Biblical Bases of Healing, 1988; The Fire of Love, 1989; Bonhoeffer's Heritage, 1989; The Makers of the English Bible, 1990; Living Christianity, 1990; Air Your Faith, 1991; George: Biography of Viscount Tonypandy, 1992; Catching Fire, 1993; Unshakable Friend, 1995; Taking the Word to the World, 1996; The Prison Poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1998; Voices in the Night, 1999; Bishop of the Resistance, 2000; My Soul Finds Rest in God Alone, 2001; I Stand at the Door, 2003. TRANSLATOR: And Yet It Moves, 1978; A Book of Christian Faith, 1980; M. Lienhard, Luther: Witness to Jesus Christ, 1982. EDITOR: No Rusty Swords, 1958; The Way to Freedom, 1965; E. Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage, 1970; True Patriotism, 1973; Lochmann, Encountering Marx, 1977; Bonhoeffer's Christology, 1978; Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Selected Writings, 1995. Address: 33 Briardale Gardens, London NW3 7PN, England.

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