Joseph Wilson Trigg (born 25 October 1949) is an American scholar who specializes in early Christian history.

Biography

Trigg was born on 25 October 1949, in Henderson County, Kentucky. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1978, with a thesis titled "Healing that Comes from God: The Alexandrian Response to the Third-Century Penitential Crisis". He then taught at Ohio Wesleyan University and was a research fellow at Rice University. Back cover.

He later became an Episcopal priest, and was the Rector of Christ Church, Port Tobacco, Maryland. As of 2020, he had retired from Episcopal ministry, and was living with his wife in Louisville, Kentucky.

Selected works

See also Celsus Origen Origenist crises

References

External links

Joseph Trigg - Independent Researcher Review: Origen. The Bible and Philosophy in the Third-century Church Joseph Wilson Trigg