John Neville Figgis

{{Short description|British historian and philosopher (1866–1919)}}

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| birth_place = Brighton, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1919|04|13|1866|10|02|df=yes}}

| death_place = Virginia Water, England

| other_names = {{ubl | J. N. Figgis | Neville Figgis}}

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Lord Acton{{sfnm |1a1=Chapman |1y=2004 |2a1=Mead |2y=2018 |2p=251}}
Mandell Creighton{{sfn|Chapman|2004}}
Otto von Gierke{{sfn|Mead|2018|pp=251–252}}
Frederic William Maitland{{sfn|Hirst|1989|p=10}}
Albert Schweitzer{{sfn|Chapman|2004}}

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| sub_discipline = {{hlist | Intellectual history | political philosophy}}

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G. D. H. Cole{{sfn|Hirst|1989|p=10}}
Paul Hirst
Harold Laski{{sfn|Hirst|1989|p=10}}
David Nicholls
Maurice Reckitt{{sfn|Mead|2018|pp=251–252}}
William Temple{{sfn|Goldie|1994|p=189}}
Lionel S. Thornton{{sfn|Boldt|2018|pp=144, 188–189, 192}}
Rowan Williams{{cite web |last=Richardson |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Richardson (priest) |date=8 May 2008 |title=A Higher Responsibility |url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1835 |location=London |publisher=Archbishop of Canterbury |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218105603/http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1835 |archive-date=18 December 2008 |access-date=26 December 2019}}

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John Neville Figgis {{post-nominals|post-noms=CR}} (2 October 1866 – 13 April 1919) was an English historian, political philosopher, and Anglican priest and monk of the Community of the Resurrection.

Life

He was born in Brighton on 2 October 1866.{{sfn|Chapman|2004}} 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.{{cite web |last=Antoniou |first=Marios |date=6 April 2018 |title=Rare Books and Religious History – Discovering the Mirfield Collection |url=http://informationdirectorate.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/rare-books-and-religious-history.html |website=Inspiring Minds |location=York, England |publisher=University of York |access-date=26 December 2019}}

He was professed in the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield in 1909.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} He died on 13 April 1919 in Virginia Water.{{sfn|Chapman|2004}}

Works

[https://archive.org/details/divinerightofkin00figguoft The Divine Right of Kings] (1896), second edition 1914
[https://archive.org/details/christianityhist00figg Christianity and History] (1905)
[https://archive.org/details/studiesofpolitic00figgiala Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius, 1414–1625] (1907){{cite journal|title=From Gerson to Grotius, 1414–1625 by John Neville Figgis|journal=The Athenaeum|issue=4163|date=August 10, 1907|pages=145–146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__I_PcOFSw8C&pg=PA145}} Birkbeck Lectures, 1900
[https://archive.org/details/gospelhumanneeds00figg The Gospel and Human Needs] (1909) Hulsean Lectures
[http://anglicanhistory.org/england/jnfiggis/defects1917/ Religion and English Society] (1911)
[https://archive.org/details/civilisationatcr00figgrich Civilisation at the Cross Roads] (1912){{cite journal|journal=The Athenaeum|title=Civilisation at the Cross Roads by John Neville Figgis|issue=4430|date=September 21, 1912|pages=297–298|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hx8RwggCztsC&pg=PA297}}
[https://archive.org/details/antichristandoth00figguoft Antichrist and Other Sermons] (1913)
[https://archive.org/details/cu31924020347351 Churches in the Modern State] (1913)
[https://archive.org/details/fellowshipmyste00figggoog The Fellowship of the Mystery] (1914) Bishop Paddock Lectures
[https://archive.org/details/willtofreedomorg08figg The Will to Freedom: or, The Gospel of Nietzsche and the Gospel of Christ] (1917)
[http://anglicanhistory.org/england/jnfiggis/religion1911.html Some Defects of English Religion] (1917)
[https://archive.org/details/hopesforenglishr00figguoft Hopes for English Religion] (1919)
[https://archive.org/details/thepoliticalaspe00figguoft The Political Aspects of S. Augustine's City of God] (1921)

References

=Footnotes=

=Bibliography=

{{cite thesis

|last=Boldt

|first=Jeffrey

|year=2018

|title=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

|degree=ThD

|location=Toronto

|publisher=University of Toronto

|hdl=1807/90365

|hdl-access=free

}}

{{cite encyclopedia

|last=Chapman

|first=Mark D.

|author-link=Mark Chapman (theologian)

|year=2004

|title=Figgis, (John) Neville (1866–1919)

|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

|location=Oxford

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33126

}}

{{cite book

|last=Goldie

|first=Mark

|author-link=Mark Goldie

|year=1994

|chapter=J. N. Figgis and the History of Political Thought in Cambridge

|editor-last=Mason

|editor-first=Richard

|title=Cambridge Minds

|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780521456258_0

|url-access=limited

|location=Cambridge, England

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|pages=177–192

|isbn=978-0-521-45625-8

|access-date=28 December 2019

}}

{{cite book

|last=Grimley

|first=Matthew

|year=2004

|title=Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars

|location=Oxford

|publisher=Clarendon Press

|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270897.001.0001

|isbn=978-0-19-927089-7

}}

{{cite book

|year=1989

|chapter=Introduction

|chapter-url=https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/files/568974/download?download_frd=1&verifier=stSyT7CvQ8uJsExwrUmTNorc5wC9V1oPgeOI4uVu

|chapter-format=PDF

|editor-last=Hirst

|editor-first=Paul Q.

|editor-link=Paul Hirst

|title=The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G. D. H. Cole, J. N. Figgis, and H. J. Laski

|location=London

|publisher=Routledge

|publication-date=2005

|pages=1–46

|isbn=978-0-203-98600-4

|access-date=26 December 2019

}}

{{cite book

|last=Mead

|first=Henry

|year=2018

|chapter=A Conservative Ethic: A. R. Orage and T. E. Hulme, 1908–1916

|editor1-last=Carle

|editor1-first=Naomi

|editor2-last=Shaw

|editor2-first=Samuel

|editor3-last=Shaw

|editor3-first=Sarah

|title=Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party

|location=New York

|publisher=Routledge

|pages=236–260

|doi=10.4324/9781315146843

|isbn=978-1-315-14684-3

}}

External links

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{{Internet Archive author |name=John Neville Figgis}}
[http://anglicanhistory.org/england/jnfiggis/ Directory of works by John Neville Figgis 1866–1919] from Project Canterbury

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