'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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Authors: Ingram, Robert G (Author) ; Fitzwater, Adeline (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Wales Press 2023
In: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Year: 2023, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-96
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.
ISSN:2057-4525
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.16922/jrhlc.9.1.3