John Neville Figgis

John Neville Figgis (1866 - 1919) was a historian, political philosopher and monk. Educated at Brighton College, 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 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.

He entered the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield in 1896.

Works

• The Divine Right of Kings (1896)
• Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius. 1414-1625 (1907) Birkbeck Lectures, 1900. [1]
• The Gospel and Human Needs (1909) Hulsean Lectures
• Religion and English Society (1911)
• Civilisation at the Cross Roads (1912)
• The Fellowship of the Mystery (1913) Bishop Paddock Lectures
• Churches in the Modern State (1914)
• Some Defects of English Religion (1917)
• Hopes for English Religion (1919)
• The Political Aspects of St. Augustine's City of God (1921)

References

• The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G. D. H. Cole, J. N. Figgis, and H. J. Laski (1989) edited by Paul Hirst
• Pluralist State: The Political Ideas of J. N. Figgis and His Contemporaries (1994) David Nicholls

External links

• John Neville Figgis 1866-1919 (Project Canterbury)

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