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{{short description|1889 collection of essays}}
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'''''Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation''''' is a collection of 12 essays by [[Liberal Anglo-Catholicism|liberal Anglo-Catholic]] theologians published in 1889.{{sfnm |1a1=Grimley |1y=2004 |1p=37 |2a1=Picton |2y=2015 |2p=108 |3a1=Wildman |3a2=Michaud |3y=2004}} It was edited by [[Charles Gore]], then the principal of [[Pusey House, Oxford]], and a future [[Bishop of Oxford]].{{sfnm |1a1=Armentrout |1a2=Slocum |1y=2000 |2a1=Wildman |2a2=Michaud |2y=2004}}
  
Gore's essay, "The Holy Spirit and Inspiration", which showed an ability to accept discoveries of contemporary science,{{sfn|Muray|2008|p=34}} marked a break from the conservative [[Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] thought of figures such as [[Edward Bouverie Pusey]].{{sfnm |1a1=Richardson |1y=1963 |1p=313 |2a1=Slocum |2y=2000 |2p=216}} He subsequently remedied [[Christology|Christological]] deficiency{{according to whom|date=December 2017}} in his 1891 [[Bampton Lectures]], ''The Incarnation of the Son of God''.{{sfn|Gore|1891}}

Gore and ''Lux Mundi'' came to influence the 20th-century [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] [[William Temple (bishop)|William Temple]].{{sfn|Padgett|1974|p=11}}

== List of contributors ==
* [[Henry Scott Holland|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")
* [[Edward Talbot (bishop)|E. S. Talbot]] ("The Preparation in History for Christ")
* [[Robert Moberly (priest)|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 ===
{{reflist|22em}}

=== Bibliography ===
{{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}}
* {{cite encyclopedia
|year=2000
|editor1-last=Armentrout
|editor1-first=Don S.
|editor2-last=Slocum
|editor2-first=Robert Boak
|title=''Lux Mundi''
|url=https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/lux-mundi
|encyclopedia=An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church
|location=New York
|publisher=Church Publishing
|page=315
|isbn=978-0-89869-701-8
|access-date=20 December 2017
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Gore
|first=Charles
|author-link=Charles Gore
|year=1891
|title=The Incarnation of the Son of God
|url=https://archive.org/details/incarnationofson00goreuoft
|location=London
|publisher=John Murray
|ol=7217548M
|access-date=21 December 2017
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Grimley
|first=Matthew
|year=2004
|title=Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State between the Wars
|location=Oxford
|publisher=Clarendon Press
|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270897.001.0001
|isbn=978-0-19-155654-8
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Muray
|first=Leslie A.
|year=2008
|title=Liberal Protestantism and Science
|location=Westport, Connecticut
|publisher=Greenwood Press
|isbn=978-0-313-33701-7
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Padgett
|first=Jack F.
|year=1974
|title=The Christian Philosophy of William Temple
|url=https://archive.org/details/christianphiloso0000padg
|url-access=registration
|location=The Hague
|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff
|doi=10.1007/978-94-010-2042-8
|isbn=978-94-010-2042-8
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Picton
|first=Hervé
|year=2015
|title=A Short History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present Day
|location=Newcastle
|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing
|isbn=978-1-4438-7300-0
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Richardson
|first=Alan
|author-link=Alan Richardson (priest)
|year=1963
|chapter=The Rise of Modern Biblical Scholarship and Recent Discussion of the Authority of the Bible
|editor-last=Greenslade
|editor-first=S. L.
|title=The Cambridge History of the Bible. Volume 3: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day
|location=Cambridge, England
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|publication-date=1976
|pages=294–338
|isbn=978-0-521-29016-6
}}
* {{cite encyclopedia
|last=Slocum
|first=Robert B.
|year=2000
|title=Gore, Charles
|editor1-last=Carey
|editor1-first=Patrick W.
|editor2-last=Lienhard
|editor2-first=Joseph T.
|encyclopedia=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians
|location=Westport, Connecticut
|publisher=Greenwood Press
|pages=215–217
|isbn=978-0-313-29649-9
}}
* {{cite encyclopedia
|year=2004
|editor1-last=Wildman
|editor1-first=Wesley
|editor1-link=Wesley Wildman
|editor2-last=Michaud
|editor2-first=Derek
|title=Lux Mundi
|url=http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/bce/luxmundi.htm
|encyclopedia=Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology
|location=Boston
|publisher=Boston University
|access-date=20 December 2017
}}
{{refend}}

== Further reading ==
{{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}}
* {{cite book
|year=1890
|editor-last=Gore
|editor-first=Charles
|editor-link=Charles Gore
|title=Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation
|url=https://archive.org/details/a583501000goreuoft
|edition=10th
|location=London
|publisher=John Murray
|access-date=20 December 2017
}}
* {{cite encyclopedia
|author1-link=Christoph Schwöbel
|last=Schwöbel
|first=Christoph
|year=1991
|encyclopedia=Theologische Realenzyklopâdie
|language=de
|volume=21
|page=621
}}
{{refend}}

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