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Must faith retreat when science and history challenge the way people read the Bible?
In Lux Mundi, Charles Gore and fellow Anglican clergy and teachers face that question through a series of essays. Writing amid the Victorian debate over science and religion, they explore whether the Christian creed can meet Darwin’s theory of evolution, historical research, and fresh criticism of the Bible without retreating from difficult questions.
Their centre is the Incarnation: the Christian belief that God becomes human in Jesus Christ. Henry Scott Holland examines faith as reasoned trust, while Aubrey Moore considers God and evolution. Gore addresses biblical inspiration and historical criticism—the subject that draws the sharpest objections from older leaders within their own Catholic movement.
What you’ll discover
- Faith without abandoning reason Explore Holland’s account of trust in God alongside the Victorian demand for proof.
- Nature and the divine Follow Moore’s response to Darwin and his argument that evolution need not threaten belief.
- The Incarnation at the centre See how Illingworth and Moberly connect this Christian belief with human dignity and purpose.
- The Bible under scrutiny Consider Gore’s approach to inspiration as historical criticism asks difficult questions about biblical writings.
- A creed facing change Encounter Anglican thinkers who seek to answer modern learning rather than turn away from it.
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For readers who love church history, theology and the Victorian debate between science and religion, and anyone curious about how believers answered Darwin.
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- A new generation answers a hard age
- Faith is a reasoned trust in a living God
- God is present in nature, so evolution need not alarm
- The Incarnation gives shape to the whole creed
- Inspiration allows honest study of the Bible
- A storm of protest and a lasting change
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Lux Mundi
by Charles Gore; colaboradores · 1889
Anglican writers place the Incarnation at the centre of a Christian response to evolution and biblical criticism.
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Lux Mundi is a book of essays by a group of Anglican clergy and teachers, most of them linked to Oxford. Charles Gore edited it and wrote one of its chapters.
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A new generation answers a hard age
The essays grew out of a circle of friends who met to talk about how the faith should face modern thought. Their older teachers in the Oxford Movement, who had revived Catholic ideas in the Church of England, had mostly fought against liberal trends. The younger men wanted something different. They wished to keep the old creed and still welcome what was true in new learning.
Gore's preface states the aim. The authors wanted to put the Catholic faith into its right relation to modern intellectual and moral problems. They did not claim to say the last word. They offered studies, which means attempts, by men who thought the Christian faith was strong enough to be tested.
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What is Lux Mundi about?
It is a collection of essays from 1889 by Anglican scholars. They argue that the Incarnation, the belief that God became human in Christ, is the centre of Christian faith and can meet the challenges of science and biblical criticism.
Who wrote Lux Mundi?
Charles Gore edited it and wrote the essay on inspiration. Other contributors included Henry Scott Holland, Aubrey Moore, J. R. Illingworth, R. C. Moberly, Walter Lock and Edward Talbot, all linked to Oxford and the Catholic wing of the Church of England.
What does the title Lux Mundi mean?
It is Latin for light of the world. The phrase echoes the words of Jesus in the Gospel of John, and it signals the book's theme of Christ as the light that gives meaning to all areas of human knowledge.
The author
Charles Gore
1853–1932 · English bishop and theologian
Charles Gore was an English Anglican bishop, born in Wimbledon in 1853. He edited Lux Mundi, published in 1889, and wrote books on Christian theology. He served as bishop of Worcester, Birmingham, and Oxford between 1902 and 1919. He founded the Community of the Resurrection in 1892 and died in London in 1932.
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