Robert H. Smith (theologian)

Robert Harry Smith
Born
Robert Harry Smith

(1932-10-30)October 30, 1932
DiedMarch 16, 2006(2006-03-16) (aged 73)
NationalityAmerican
EducationA.A. Concordia Junior College, Bronxville, New York
B.A., M.Div., S.T.M., Th.D. Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri
OccupationTheologian
Spouse(s)Emita M. Rivas
(m. 1955–her death),
Rev. Donna Duensing
(m. 1993⁠–⁠2006)
(his death)
ChildrenRoberta, Judith, Maria

Robert Harry Smith (October 30, 1932 - March 16, 2006) was a Lutheran clergyman, theologian, prolific author and lecturer on the Bible's New Testament, and dean of a Lutheran seminary in exile in the early 1980s. Smith was one of 40 faculty members from the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri who walked out in 1974 in a theological dispute that ended with the ousting of Concordia's president, John Tietjen, who disagreed with a literal reading of the Bible.