This week in Christian history: Swiss Guard created, Charles Gore dies, Newsboys co-founder leaves faith
Charles Gore dies – Jan. 17, 1932
This week marks the anniversary of when Charles Gore, a prominent Anglican Church bishop, author and liberal theologian, died a few days shy of his 79th birthday.
Born in Wimbledon, England, and ordained in 1878, Gore was a part of the Anglo-Catholic movement, founding a monastic order called the Community of the Resurrection in 1892.
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Gore promoted the Anglo-Catholic model of the Church in books such as The Ministry of the Christian Church and Roman Catholic Claims, which were both released in 1888.
“Unlike some Anglo-Catholics, however, he did not think it sufficient to confront the aggressive secularism of the time with a blunt affirmation of the church’s supernatural life and apostolic authority,” noted Britannica.
“It was also necessary, he believed, to correlate Christian theology with scientific and historical knowledge and translate it into social action. This conviction found expression in Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation (1889), which Gore edited and became a major text of liberal Anglo-Catholicism.”
