author
Charles Gore
1853–1932
A leading Anglican thinker and bishop, he tried to show that Christian faith could face modern scholarship and science without losing its core. His books and sermons helped shape Anglo-Catholic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
4 Audiobooks
The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition
by Charles Gore
St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians: A Practical Exposition
by Charles Gore
St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans: A Practical Exposition. Vol. I
by Charles Gore
About the author
Born in Wimbledon on January 22, 1853, Charles Gore became one of the best-known figures in the Church of England. He studied at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, was elected a fellow of Trinity College, and later served as the first principal of Pusey House in Oxford, a center of Anglo-Catholic scholarship and devotion.
Gore is especially remembered as the editor of Lux Mundi (1889), a collection of essays that tried to bring Christian belief into serious conversation with modern historical criticism and scientific thought. He was both deeply traditional and unusually open to new intellectual challenges, which made him an influential and sometimes controversial voice in Anglican theology.
He went on to serve as Bishop of Worcester, then Birmingham, and finally Oxford before retiring in 1919. A prolific writer to the end of his life, he died in London on January 17, 1932, leaving behind a body of work that continued to influence theologians, clergy, and thoughtful Christian readers for decades.