John William Burgon

John William Burgon (August 21st, 1813 - August 4th, 1888) is a monk English born with İzmir (at the time called Smyrna).

Biography

His/her father, of Turkish origin , is a recognized numismatist and his/her mother is Greek.

After having worked a few years in the trade, Burgon enters to the Worcester College of the Université of Oxford in 1841 and leaves graduate four years later. It is also in 1845 qu ' it is seen decreeing the Prix Newdigate for its Sonnet Petra , especially known for the Verse Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime/has pink-red city half ace old ace time. the sonnet speaks about Pétra, the city nabatéenne; this city it had intended some to speak but never went there.

He becomes member of the Oriel College in 1846. He is very influenced by his brother-in-law, the scholar and Théologie N Henry John Pink, a monk preserving Anglican with whom he spends long holidays. Burgon makes of Oxford its seat and lives not far. In 1863 one names it Vicaire St Mary' S in Oxford, having drawn the attention with his sermons against the book Essays and Reviews published in 1860. In a series of messages on the biblical inspiration it defends historicity and mosaic paternity of the Genèse and the biblical Inerrance against the textual critical and radical of the Bible. Either you believe all the Scriptures, with best and wisest of all the ages, or you do not believe anything the Scriptures, with the limited infidel. There is no intermediate position.

In 1867 it is named Gresham Professor off Divinity . In 1871 it publishes a defense of the veracity of the twelve last Towards of the Évangile according to Marc. It starts to write against new the Lectionnaire proposed for the Church of England, based especially on its objections with the principles adopted by Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort to determine the paternity of the Manuscrit S of the New Testament. It attacks them in a memorable article in the Quarterly Review of 1881.

Its biographical tests on Henry Longueville Mansel and others are compiled in a volume called Twelve Good Men , published in 1888. He protests against the admission of Dr. Vance Smith as a relector, against the nomination of Dean Stanley at the post of preacher at the university of Oxford, and against the short speech in favor of the tolerance as regards ritual. He is named senior of Chichester in 1876.

Its biography is written by the senior Edward Meyrick Goulburn in 1892.

Though vehement and impassioned while speaking about its convictions, Burgon had good heart. One regards it as an important monk of before the Mouvement of Oxford. It bequeaths its large collection of copies of the Greek Fathers illustrating New Testament to the British Museum.

Burgon today

Today the name of Burgon is almost only associated with the Dean Burgon Society and with the King-James-Only Movement . Perhaps this movement is identified in Burgon for distancier of the allegations according to which it would find his origins in works of the Adventiste Benjamin G. Wilkinson. Though Burgon positioned much against the Revised Version of the Bible and continued to believe that the Bible is the word of God, its arguments are not the same ones as those of the King-James-Only movement.

Works

Separately the sonnet Petra , it is known for its The Revision Revised , where it criticizes the Revised Version (1881) of the Bible.

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