John Neville Figgis (2 October 1866 – 13 April 1919) was an English

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

political philosopher Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

, and

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

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and

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of the

Community of the Resurrection The Community of the Resurrection (CR) is an Anglican religious community for men in England. It is based in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, and has 13 members as of February 2021. The community reflects Anglicanism in its broad nature and is stron ...

. He was born in

Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

on 2 October 1866. Educated at

Brighton College Brighton College is an independent, co-educational boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 3 to 18 in Brighton, England. The school has three sites: Brighton College (the senior school, ages 11 to 18); Brighton College Preparatory Sc ...

and

St Catharine's College, Cambridge St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Camb ...

, he was a student of

Lord Acton John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He is best remembered for the remark he w ...

at Cambridge, and editor of much of Acton's work. He is remembered in relation to the

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and concepts of the pluralist state. The latter he in some ways adapted from

Otto von Gierke Otto Friedrich von Gierke, born Otto Friedrich Gierke (11 January 1841 – 10 October 1921) was a German legal scholar and historian. He is considered today as one of the most influential and important legal scholars of the 19th and 20th century. ...

; his ideas were picked up by others, such as G. D. H. Cole and

Harold Laski Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of ...

. Some of the books which belonged to Figgis form part of the Mirfield Collection which is housed in the University of York Special Collections. He was professed in the Community of the Resurrection at

Mirfield Mirfield () is a town and civil parish in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is on the A644 road between Brighouse and Dewsbury. At the 2011 census it had a population of 19,563. Mirfield ...

in 1909. He died on 13 April 1919 in

Virginia Water Virginia Water is a commuter village in the Borough of Runnymede in northern Surrey, England. It is home to the Wentworth Estate and the Wentworth Club. The area has much woodland and occupies a large minority of the Runnymede district. Its n ...

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) Birkbeck Lectures, 1900
''The Gospel and Human Needs''
(1909)

Hulsean Lectures The Hulsean Lectures were established from an endowment made by John Hulse to the University of Cambridge in 1790. At present, they consist of a series of four to eight lectures given by a university graduate on some branch of Christian theology. ...

*
Religion and English Society
' (1911)
''Civilisation at the Cross Roads''
(1912)
''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) *

' (1917)
''Hopes for English Religion''
(1919)
''The Political Aspects of S. Augustine's City of God''
(1921)

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Directory of works by John Neville Figgis 1866–1919
from

Project Canterbury Project Canterbury (sometimes abbreviated as PC) is an online archive of material related to the history of Anglicanism. It was founded by Richard Mammana, Jr. in 1999 with a grant from Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold, and is ho ...

1866 births 1919 deaths 19th-century Anglican theologians 19th-century English male writers 19th-century English Anglican priests 19th-century English Christian theologians 19th-century English historians 19th-century English philosophers 20th-century Anglican theologians 20th-century English male writers 20th-century English Anglican priests 20th-century English historians 20th-century English philosophers 20th-century English theologians Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Anglican monks Anglican philosophers Anglo-Catholic theologians Anglo-Catholic socialists Church of England priests Converts to Anglicanism English Anglican theologians English Anglo-Catholics English Christian monks English Christian socialists English male non-fiction writers English political philosophers Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Intellectual historians People educated at Brighton College {{England-historian-stub

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