The Abbey has never since recovered its place as a centre of Christian teaching.
Up to this time Dr.Gore's sympathy for the Oxford Movement was merely the background of a life devoted to the mystical element and the moral implications of the Christian religion.

He was known as a High Churchman; he was felt to be a saint; his modernism was almost forgotten.
It was not long before his tentative movement towards modernism ended in a profession of Catholic principles which allied him with forces definitely and sometimes angrily ranged against the Higher Criticism.

He became a Bishop.

Almost at once the caressing fingers of the saint became the heavy hand of the dogmatist.

He who had frightened Liddon by his tremulous adventure towards the mere fringe of modernism became the declared enemy, the implacable foe, of the least of his clergy who questioned even the most questionable clauses of the creeds.