'The Real Question of Freedom': The State, the Church and the Individual, c.1860–1920
This essay explores the relationship between the individual, the state and the church. In particular, it considers he ways that a particularly influential group of early twentieth-century state-critics - the English pluralist - grappled with the tension between state authority and individual liberty...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Wales Press
2023
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The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Year: 2023, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-96 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Individualism
/ Pluralism
/ Rule
B Newman, John Henry, Saint 1801-1890 / Reception / Laski, Harold Joseph 1893-1950 / Figgis, John Neville 1866-1919 |
RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KBF British Isles TJ Modern history TK Recent history VA Philosophy ZC Politics in general |
Further subjects: | B
J. N. FIGGIS
B Pluralism B Authority B Individualism B JOHN HENRY NEWMAN B Conscience B HAROLD LASKI B Freedom |
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Summary: | This essay explores the relationship between the individual, the state and the church. In particular, it considers he ways that a particularly influential group of early twentieth-century state-critics - the English pluralist - grappled with the tension between state authority and individual liberty through a careful engagement with the thought of John Henry Newman. But while English pluralists like J. N. Figgis and Harold Laski admired Newman's critiques of ultramontanism, they could not accept some of Newman's premises, particularly those regarding the conscience, which underlay his rejection of ultramontanism. English pluralism, this essay suggests, was beset by a kind of conceptual confusion which its proponents recognized but could not - or would not - resolve. |
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ISSN: | 2057-4525 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.16922/jrhlc.9.1.3 |