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- John William Burgon (21 August 1813 – 4 August 1888) was an.
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- John William Burgon was an English Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876.
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The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham.
London: R. Jennings, 1839.
Petra, a Poem.
Oxford: F. MacPherson, 1846.
Fifty Cottage Prints from Sacred Subjects, Designed by the Most Celebrated English, German, and Old Masters, Intended Chiefly for Distribution amongst the Poor, and Rewards to Sunday-school Children.
London: Hering and Remington, 1851.
A Plain Commentary on the Four Holy Gospels Intended Chiefly for Devotional Reading.
London: John Henry and James Parker, 1859-1860.
Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford.
London: John Henry and James Parker, 1861.
The Lambeth Conference and the Encyclical. A Sermon Preached at St. Mary-the-Virgin's, Oxford, on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity, (Oct. 20th), 1867, after Publicly Reading, by Command of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, the Pastoral Address of the Archbishops, Bishops, Metropolitans, and Presiding Bishops Assembled at the Lambeth Conference.
Oxford and London: James Parker and Co., 1867.
Ninety-one Short Sermons for Family Reading Following the Course of the Chris
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John William Burgon
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Burgon was born at Smymna in August 1813, the son of a Turkey merchant, who was a skilled numismatist and afterwards became an assistant in the antiquities department of the British Museum.
After a few years of business life, Burgon went to Worcester College, Oxford, in 1841, gained the Newdigate prize, took his degree in 1845, and won an Oriel fellowship in 1846. He was much influenced by his brother-inlaw, the scholar and theologian Henry John Rose (1800-1873). Burgon made Oxford his headquarters, while holding a living at some distance. In 1863 he was made vicar of St Mary’s, having attracted attention by his vehement sermons against Essays and Reviews.
In 1867 he was appointed Gresham professor of divinity at Oxford. In. 1871 he published a defence of the genuineness of the twelve last verses of St Mark’s Gospel, based on textual analysis and manuscript evidence. He now began an attack on the proposal for a new lectionary for the Church of England, based largely upon his objections to the false principles for determining
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John William Burgon
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John William Burgon[] (August 21, 1813 - August 4, 1888) (also known as Dean Burgon), was an English Anglican divine who become the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876. He is remembered for his passionate defense of the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis and of Biblical inerrancy in general.
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Burgon was born at Smyrna, the son of an English merchant trading in Turkey who was also a skilled numismatist and afterwards became an assistant in the antiquities department of the British Museum. His mother is often said to have been Greek but was in fact the daughter of the Austrian consul at Smyrna and his English wife.[2]
During his first year the family moved to London, where he was sent to school. After a few years of business life, working in his father's counting-house[3], Burgon went to Worcester College, Oxford, in 1841, and took his degree in 1845. The same year he took the Newdigate Prize for his poem Petra, referring to Petra, t
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