ABSTRACT
Robinson has developed this theme at some length.5 He has argued that ‘since the eighteenth century the theology of the British pro-consuls had been defined in terms of “Trusteeship”’,6 and has stressed the periodic redefinition of ideals associated with the term, the importance of collective conviction or personal ideals as a determinant of policy, as well as the fact that Exeter Hall and the overtly religious sectors of the British public had no monopoly of ethical concern for those experiencing the pressures of British expansion and the extension of colonial rule. He has focused closely on the twentieth-century African empire, the sterility of the old morality evident between the wars, the work of the empire’s new theologians, and the evangelical enthusiasm of born-again proconsuls led by Andrew Cohen.
