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Educated Circles and Their Mode of Reasoning: Lux Mundi - Essay VIII (1889): Professor T.H. Huxley Versus Bishop Charles Gore

“Professor Huxley’s article alluded to is a somewhat melancholy example of a mode of reasoning which one had hoped had vanished from educated circles forever – that namely which regards Christianity as a ‘religion of a book’ in such sense that it is supposed to propose for men’s acceptance a volume to be received in all its parts as.... Divine

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(Preface to the tenth edition, Lux Mundi: 1890.)

“What we should make of the New Testament record, what estimate we should be able to form of the Person of Jesus Christ and the meaning of His life and work, if it was contained simply in some old manuscripts, or unearthed in some way by antiquaries out of the Syrian sand, it is impossible to say. In order to have grounds for believing the facts, in order to be susceptible of their evidence, we require an antecedent state of conception and expectation. A whole set of presuppositions about God, about the slavery of sin, about the reasonableness of redemption, must be present with us. So only can the facts presented to us in the Gospel come to us as credible things, or as parts of an intelligible universe, correlated elements in a rational whole.” Charles Gore. LUX MUNDI.

(Bishop of oxford [1911-1919].)

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