Lux Mundi (book) explained

Lux Mundi
Editor:	Charles Gore
Country:	England
Language:	English
Publisher:	John Murray
Pub 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. It was edited by Charles Gore, then the principal of Pusey House, Oxford, and a future Bishop of Oxford. Gore's essay, "The Holy Spirit and Inspiration", which showed an ability to accept discoveries of contemporary science, marked a break from the conservative Anglo-Catholic thought of figures such as Edward Bouverie Pusey. He subsequently remedied Christological deficiency in his 1891 Bampton Lectures, The Incarnation of the Son of God.

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

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

Bibliography

• Encyclopedia: 2000. Armentrout. Don S.. Slocum. Robert Boak. Lux Mundi. An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church. New York. Church Publishing. 315. 978-0-89869-701-8. 20 December 2017.
• Book: Gore , Charles . Charles Gore. 1891. The Incarnation of the Son of God. London. John Murray. 7217548M. 21 December 2017.
• Book: Grimley , Matthew . 2004. Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State between the Wars. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270897.001.0001. 978-0-19-155654-8.
• Book: Muray , Leslie A. . 2008. Liberal Protestantism and Science. Westport, Connecticut. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-33701-7.
• Book: Padgett , Jack F. . 1974. The Christian Philosophy of William Temple. registration. The Hague. Martinus Nijhoff. 10.1007/978-94-010-2042-8. 978-94-010-2042-8.
• Book: Picton , Hervé . 2015. A Short History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present Day. Newcastle. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-4438-7300-0.
• Book: Richardson , Alan . Alan Richardson (priest). 1963. The Rise of Modern Biblical Scholarship and Recent Discussion of the Authority of the Bible. Greenslade. S. L.. The Cambridge History of the Bible. Volume 3: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day. Cambridge, England. Cambridge University Press. 1976. 294–338. 978-0-521-29016-6.
• Encyclopedia: Slocum. Robert B.. 2000. Gore, Charles. Carey. Patrick W.. Lienhard. Joseph T.. Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians. Westport, Connecticut. Greenwood Press. 215–217. 978-0-313-29649-9.
• Encyclopedia: 2004. Wildman. Wesley. Wesley Wildman. Michaud. Derek. Lux Mundi. Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology. Boston. Boston University. 20 December 2017.

Further reading

• Book: 1890. Gore. Charles. Charles Gore. Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation. 10th. London. John Murray. 20 December 2017.
• Encyclopedia: Christoph Schwöbel. Schwöbel. Christoph. 1991. Theologische Realenzyklopâdie. de. 21. 621.