Robert Farrar Capon, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRobert Farrar Capon
American food writer and priest
Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1925
Date of Death: 05-Sep-2013
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Robert Farrar Capon
- Robert Farrar Capon (October 26, 1925 – September 5, 2013) was an American Episcopal priest, author and chef.
- He was born in Jackson Heights, Queens in 1925.
- A lifelong New Yorker, for almost thirty years Capon was a full-time parish priest in Port Jefferson, New York.
- In 1965, he published his first book, Bed and Board, and in 1977 he left the full-time ministry to devote more time to his writing career.
- He authored a total of twenty books, including Between Noon and Three, The Supper of the Lamb, Genesis: The Movie, and a trilogy on Jesus’ parables: The Parables of Grace, The Parables of the Kingdom, and The Parables of Judgment. Capon described himself in the introduction to one of his books as an “old-fashioned high churchman and a Thomist to boot.” One of Capon’s primary themes is the radical grace of God.
- Capon summarizes his broad view of salvation as follows: I am and I am not a universalist.
- I am one if you are talking about what God in Christ has done to save the world.
- The Lamb of God has not taken away the sins of some — of only the good, or the cooperative, or the select few who can manage to get their act together and die as perfect peaches.
- He has taken away the sins of the world — of every last being in it — and he has dropped them down the black hole of Jesus’ death.
- On the cross, he has shut up forever on the subject of guilt: "There is therefore now no condemnation.
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- ." All human beings, at all times and places, are home free whether they know it or not, feel it or not, believe it or not. But I am not a universalist if you are talking about what people may do about accepting that happy-go-lucky gift of God’s grace.
- I take with utter seriousness everything that Jesus had to say about hell, including the eternal torment that such a foolish non-acceptance of his already-given acceptance must entail.
- All theologians who hold Scripture to be the Word of God must inevitably include in their work a tractate on hell.
- But I will not — because Jesus did not — locate hell outside the realm of grace.
- Grace is forever sovereign, even in Jesus' parables of judgment.
- No one is ever kicked out at the end of those parables who wasn’t included in at the beginning. In the 1990s Capon served as assisting priest at St.
- Luke's Church in East Hampton, New York, and was the Canon Theologian to the Episcopal Bishop of Long Island.
- He lived with his wife Valerie in Shelter Island, New York as of 2004. Capon also had a lifelong interest in food and cooking, and authored several cookbooks.
- He was a food columnist for Newsday and The New York Times, and taught cooking classes. Robert Capon died on September 5, 2013 in Greenport, New York.
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