Charles Bigg (1840–1908) was a

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clergyman, theologian and church historian. Bigg was the winner of the

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for Greek Prose in 1861. In 1886, he delivered the

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, later published as
''The Christian Platonists of Alexandria''
He served as the principal of

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in 1871. In 1900 he was invited by the

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, to a round table conference that produce
''The Doctrine of Holy Communion and its Expression in Ritual''
in 1900. After the death of Reverend

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, he was in April 1901 appointed

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at the

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, holding the post until his death.

Works

The Christian Platonists of Alexandria : Eight lectures preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1886 on the foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton (1886)

Neoplatonism (1895)

The imitation of Christ : called also The ecclesiastical music (1900). Translated by Bigg.

A critical and exegetical commentary on the Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude (1901)

The church's task under the Roman empire; four lectures with preface, notes, and an excursus (1905)

Wayside sketches in ecclesiastical history; nine lectures (1906)

The origins of Christianity (1909)

The doctrine of the twelve Apostles (1922)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bigg, Charles 1840 births 1908 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Headmasters of Brighton College Regius Professors of Ecclesiastical History