Lux Mundi (book)

Lux Mundi
Editor	Charles Gore
Country	England
Language	English
Publisher	John Murray
Publication date	1889
Media type	Print
Pages	525
OCLC	18790536

Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation is a collection of 12 essays by liberal Anglo-Catholic theologians published in 1889.[1] It was edited by Charles Gore, then the principal of Pusey House, Oxford, and a future Bishop of Oxford.[2]

Gore's essay, "The Holy Spirit and Inspiration", which showed an ability to accept discoveries of contemporary science,[3] marked a break from the conservative Anglo-Catholic thought of figures such as Edward Bouverie Pusey.[4] He subsequently remedied Christological deficiency in his 1891 Bampton Lectures, The Incarnation of the Son of God.[5]

Gore and Lux Mundi came to influence the 20th-century Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple.[6]

List of contributors

H. S. Holland ("Faith")
Aubrey Moore ("The Christian Doctrine of God")
J. R. Illingworth ("The Problem of Pain: its bearing on faith in God" and "The Incarnation in relation to Development")
E. S. Talbot ("The Preparation in History for Christ")
R. C. Moberley ("The Incarnation as the Basis of Dogma")
Arthur Lyttelton ("The Atonement")
Charles Gore ("The Holy Spirit and Inspiration")
Walter Lock ("The Church")
Francis Paget ("Sacraments")
W. J. H. Campion ("Christianity and Politics")
R. L. Ottley ("Christian Ethics")

In popular culture

The novel Absolute Truths by Susan Howatch, the sixth novel in her "Starbridge" series, often refers to and quotes Lux Mundi in order to underpin the context of the Church of England in the book.

References

Footnotes

Grimley 2004, p. 37; Picton 2015, p. 108; Wildman & Michaud 2004.
Armentrout & Slocum 2000; Wildman & Michaud 2004.
Muray 2008, p. 34.
Richardson 1963, p. 313; Slocum 2000, p. 216.
Gore 1891.
Padgett 1974, p. 11.

Bibliography

Armentrout, Don S.; Slocum, Robert Boak, eds. (2000). "Lux Mundi". An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church. New York: Church Publishing. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-89869-701-8. Retrieved 20 December 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Gore, Charles (1891). The Incarnation of the Son of God. London: John Murray. OL 7217548M. Retrieved 21 December 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Grimley, Matthew (2004). Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State between the Wars. Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270897.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-155654-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Muray, Leslie A. (2008). Liberal Protestantism and Science. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33701-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Padgett, Jack F. (1974). The Christian Philosophy of William Temple. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. doi:10.1007/978-94-010-2042-8. ISBN 978-94-010-2042-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Picton, Hervé (2015). A Short History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present Day. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-7300-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Richardson, Alan (1963). "The Rise of Modern Biblical Scholarship and Recent Discussion of the Authority of the Bible". In Greenslade, S. L. (ed.). The Cambridge History of the Bible. Volume 3: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press (published 1976). pp. 294–338. ISBN 978-0-521-29016-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Slocum, Robert B. (2000). "Gore, Charles". In Carey, Patrick W.; Lienhard, Joseph T. (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 215–217. ISBN 978-0-313-29649-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Wildman, Wesley; Michaud, Derek, eds. (2004). "Lux Mundi". Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology. Boston: Boston University. Retrieved 20 December 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)