John Neville Figgis Explained

Honorific Prefix:

The Reverend

John Neville Figgis

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Birth Date:

2 October 1866

Birth Place:

Brighton, England

Death Place:

Virginia Water, England

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Church:	Church of England

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Alma Mater:	St Catharine's College, Cambridge

John Neville Figgis (2 October 1866 – 13 April 1919) was an English historian, political philosopher, and Anglican priest and monk of the Community of the Resurrection. He was born in Brighton on 2 October 1866. Educated at Brighton College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, he was a student of Lord Acton at Cambridge, and editor of much of Acton's work.

He is remembered in relation to the history of ideas and concepts of the pluralist state. The latter he in some ways adapted from Otto von Gierke; his ideas were picked up by others, such as G. D. H. Cole and Harold Laski. Some of the books which belonged to Figgis form part of the Mirfield Collection which is housed in the University of York Special Collections.^[1]

He was professed in the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield in 1909. He died on 13 April 1919 in Virginia Water.

Works

The Divine Right of Kings (1896), second edition 1914
Christianity and History (1905)
Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius, 1414–1625 (1907)^[2] Birkbeck Lectures, 1900
The Gospel and Human Needs (1909) Hulsean Lectures
Religion and English Society (1911)
Civilisation at the Cross Roads (1912)^[3]
Antichrist and Other Sermons (1913)
Churches in the Modern State (1913)
The Fellowship of the Mystery (1914) Bishop Paddock Lectures
The Will to Freedom: or, The Gospel of Nietzsche and the Gospel of Christ (1917)
Some Defects of English Religion (1917)
Hopes for English Religion (1919)
The Political Aspects of S. Augustine's City of God (1921)

References

Bibliography

Boldt. Jeffrey. 2018. From Butler to Thornton: A Typology of Conflicting Readings of the Two Books of Scripture and Nature in the Church of England from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century. ThD. Toronto. University of Toronto. 1807/90365. free.
Encyclopedia: Chapman. Mark D.. Mark Chapman (theologian). 2004. Figgis, (John) Neville (1866–1919). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford. Oxford University Press. 10.1093/ref:odnb/33126.
Book: Goldie , Mark . Mark Goldie. 1994. J. N. Figgis and the History of Political Thought in Cambridge. Mason. Richard. Cambridge Minds. limited. Cambridge, England. Cambridge University Press. 177–192. 978-0-521-45625-8. 28 December 2019.
Book: Grimley , Matthew . 2004. Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270897.001.0001. 978-0-19-927089-7.
Book: 1989. Introduction. https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/files/568974/download?download_frd=1&verifier=stSyT7CvQ8uJsExwrUmTNorc5wC9V1oPgeOI4uVu. PDF. Hirst. Paul Q.. Paul Hirst. The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G. D. H. Cole, J. N. Figgis, and H. J. Laski. London. Routledge. 2005. 1–46. 978-0-203-98600-4. 26 December 2019.
Book: Mead , Henry . 2018. A Conservative Ethic: A. R. Orage and T. E. Hulme, 1908–1916. Carle. Naomi. Shaw. Samuel. Shaw. Sarah. Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party. New York. Routledge. 236–260. 10.4324/9781315146843. 978-1-315-14684-3.

External links

- - - Directory of works by John Neville Figgis 1866–1919 from Project Canterbury

Notes and References

Web site: Antoniou . Marios . 6 April 2018 . Rare Books and Religious History – Discovering the Mirfield Collection . Inspiring Minds . York, England . University of York . 26 December 2019.
From Gerson to Grotius, 1414–1625 by John Neville Figgis. The Athenaeum. 4163. August 10, 1907. 145–146.
The Athenaeum. Civilisation at the Cross Roads by John Neville Figgis. 4430. September 21, 1912. 297–298.