John Neville Figgis

The Reverend
John Neville Figgis
CR
The Reverend John Neville Figgis CR
Born	2 October 1866; Brighton, England
Died	13 April 1919 (aged 52); Virginia Water, England
Other names	J. N. Figgis; Neville Figgis;
Ecclesiastical career
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1894 (deacon); 1895 (priest);
Scholarly background
Alma mater	St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Influences	Lord Acton; Mandell Creighton; Otto von Gierke; Frederic William Maitland; Albert Schweitzer;
Scholarly work
Discipline	History; philosophy; theology;
Sub-discipline	Intellectual history; political philosophy;
School or tradition	Cambridge School; liberal Anglo-Catholicism; pluralism;
Influenced	G. D. H. Cole; Paul Hirst; Harold Laski; David Nicholls; Maurice Reckitt; William Temple; Lionel Thornton; Rowan Williams;

John Neville Figgis CR (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.^[1] 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.^[10]

He was professed in the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield in 1909.^{[citation needed]} He died on 13 April 1919 in Virginia Water.^[1]

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)^[11] Birkbeck Lectures, 1900
The Gospel and Human Needs (1909) Hulsean Lectures
Religion and English Society (1911)
Civilisation at the Cross Roads (1912)^[12]
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

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Chapman 2004.
^ Chapman 2004; Mead 2018, p. 251.
^ ^a ^b Mead 2018, pp. 251–252.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hirst 1989, p. 10.
^ ^a ^b Wilkinson, Alan (1998). "A Forgotten Monk of St Catharine's: John Neville Figgis CR (1866–1919)" (PDF). St Catharine's College Society Magazine. Cambridge, England: St Catharine's College Society. p. 22. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
^ Grimley 2004, p. 65.
^ Goldie 1994, p. 189.
^ Boldt 2018, pp. 144, 188–189, 192.
^ Richardson, Paul (8 May 2008). "A Higher Responsibility". London: Archbishop of Canterbury. Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
^ Antoniou, Marios (6 April 2018). "Rare Books and Religious History – Discovering the Mirfield Collection". Inspiring Minds. York, England: University of York. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
^ "From Gerson to Grotius, 1414–1625 by John Neville Figgis". The Athenaeum (4163): 145–146. 10 August 1907.
^ "Civilisation at the Cross Roads by John Neville Figgis". The Athenaeum (4430): 297–298. 21 September 1912.

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 thesis). Toronto: University of Toronto. hdl:1807/90365.
Chapman, Mark D. (2004). "Figgis, (John) Neville (1866–1919)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33126.
Goldie, Mark (1994). "J. N. Figgis and the History of Political Thought in Cambridge". In Mason, Richard (ed.). Cambridge Minds. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 177–192. ISBN 978-0-521-45625-8. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
Grimley, Matthew (2004). Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars. Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270897.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-927089-7.
Hirst, Paul Q., ed. (1989). "Introduction" (PDF). The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G. D. H. Cole, J. N. Figgis, and H. J. Laski. London: Routledge (published 2005). pp. 1–46. ISBN 978-0-203-98600-4. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
Mead, Henry (2018). "A Conservative Ethic: A. R. Orage and T. E. Hulme, 1908–1916". In Carle, Naomi; Shaw, Samuel; Shaw, Sarah (eds.). Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party. New York: Routledge. pp. 236–260. doi:10.4324/9781315146843. ISBN 978-1-315-14684-3.