Excerpt from John William Burgon, Late Dean of Chichester, Vol. 1 of 2: A Biography IT may perhaps be questioned, even by some of those who greatly esteemed and admired John William Bur gon, whether his claims to be gratefully remembered by the Church, and had in honour by future generations of English Christians, might not have been satisfied by a short Memoir, - whether the part he played in ecclesias tical affairs, and in the history of religious thought during the past half-century, was of sufficient importance to ...
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Excerpt from John William Burgon, Late Dean of Chichester, Vol. 1 of 2: A Biography IT may perhaps be questioned, even by some of those who greatly esteemed and admired John William Bur gon, whether his claims to be gratefully remembered by the Church, and had in honour by future generations of English Christians, might not have been satisfied by a short Memoir, - whether the part he played in ecclesias tical affairs, and in the history of religious thought during the past half-century, was of sufficient importance to justify so detailed a record of his life as is attempted in these volumes. The author entirely thinks it was so, and for the following reason. Burgon was in this country the leading religious teacher of his time, who brought all the resources of genius and profound theological learning to rebut the encroachments of Rationalism, by maintaining inviolate the integrity of the written Word of God as the Church has received it; by pointing out its depth, its versatility of application, and absolute inexhaustibility of significance and by insisting upon its paramount claims to the humble and reverent reception of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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