The Incarnation of the Son of God being the Brampton Lectures

5b Charles Gore M. A. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1893. Inscription by Lewis Carroll

Notes

The Incarnation of the Son of God: Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1891 is a theological work by Charles Gore, a prominent Anglican theologian and churchman. Delivered as part of the prestigious Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, the book explores the doctrine of the Incarnation—the Christian belief that Jesus Christ is both fully divine and fully human. Gore defends traditional Christian orthodoxy while engaging with the critical scholarship and scientific thought of the 19th century, seeking to make Christianity intellectually credible in the modern world. The work was influential in shaping liberal Anglo-Catholic theology and remains a significant contribution to Christological studies.

Charles Gore (1853–1932) was a leading figure in the Anglican Church and a founder of the Community of the Resurrection, a religious order rooted in social justice and sacramental life. He served as Bishop of Worcester, Birmingham, and eventually Oxford. Gore was known for his blend of high-church theology and progressive social thought, often advocating for the working class and Christian socialism. As a theologian, he sought to reconcile traditional Christian doctrine with the challenges posed by modern science and historical criticism, making him a key voice in the Broad Church and Anglo-Catholic movements of his time.

Lewis Carroll (the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a devout Anglican and a mathematics lecturer at Oxford, where he moved in the same academic and theological circles that Gore would later inhabit. While Carroll died in 1898—just a few years after Gore’s lectures—he would have been aware of Gore's rising prominence. Both men were engaged in the tensions between faith and reason in Victorian England. Their mutual presence at Oxford and shared concern with preserving Christian orthodoxy in a modern context make Gore's lectures part of the broader intellectual world Carroll inhabited.

Description

Deep blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Bookplate for a George Creswell Turner adhered to inner cover. Some fraying to upper and lower spine and bumped corners. Minimal scuffing to upper board. Inscription of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll reading “ Edwin H. Dodgson, from his affectionate brother, Charles L. Dodgson, Jan 28 1896”. Fine condition overall.