David Nicholls (theologian) - Publications - Politics and Theology

Politics and Theology

Thesis

• David Nicholls, Authority in Church and State: Aspects of the Thought of J.N. Figgis and his Contemporaries (University of Cambridge PhD thesis, 1962)

Books as sole author

• David Nicholls, Church and State in Britain Since 1820 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967)

• David Nicholls, Three Varieties of Pluralism (London: Macmillan, 1974)

• David Nicholls, The Pluralist State: the political ideas of J.N. Figgis and his contemporaries (London: Macmillan, 1975; 2nd edn, Basingstoke: Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1994)

• David Nicholls, Deity and Domination: Images of God and the State in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Routledge, 1989)

• David Nicholls, God and Government in an Age of Reason (London: Routledge, 1995)

Book as co-editor and contributor

• David Nicholls and Fergus Kerr, eds, John Henry Newman: Reason, Rhetoric and Romanticism (Bristol: Bristol Press, 1991), and 'Individualism and the Appeal to Authority', ibid.

Contributions in books

• David Nicholls, 'Gladstone, Newman and the Politics of Pluralism' and 'Gladstone and the Anglican Critics of Newman', in James D. Bastable, ed., Newman and Gladstone: Centennial Essays (Dublin: Veritas Publications, 1978)

• David Nicholls, 'The Politics of Dr Norman', in Kenneth Leech, ed., Christianity Reinterpreted (London: n.p., 1979)

• David Nicholls, 'Stepping out of Babylon: Sin, Salvation & Social Transformation in Christian Tradition' and 'Great Expectations: Christian Hope and Marxist Hope', in Kenneth Leech and Rowan Williams, eds, Essays Catholic and Radical: a Jubilee Group Symposium for the 150th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Oxford Movement 1833-1983 (London: Bowerdean Press, 1983)

• David Nicholls, 'Two Tendencies in Anglo-Catholic Political Theology', in Geoffrey Rowell, ed., Tradition Renewed: the Oxford Movement Conference Papers (London: Darton, Longman, & Todd; Allison Park, Pennsylvania: Pickwick, 1986)

• David Nicholls, 'Christianity and Politics', in Robert Morgan, ed., The Religion of the Incarnation: Anglican Essays in Commemoration of Lux Mundi (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1989)

• David Nicholls, 'The Invisible Hand: Providence and the Market', in Paul Heelas and Paul Morris, eds, The Values of the Enterprise Culture (London: Routledge, 1991)

• David Nicholls, Prayer, Petition and Political Power, in Mart Bax and E. Koster, eds, Power and Prayer: Essays on Politics and Religion (Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1994)

• David Nicholls, 'Grace', in Paul Barry Clarke and Andrew Linzey, eds, Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society (London: Routledge, 1996)

Articles in journals

• David Nicholls, 'A Short and Easy Method with Mr Cowling', Cambridge Journal (February 1960)

• David Nicholls, 'Authority and the Development of Doctrine', Theology (April 1960)

• David Nicholls, 'Gladstone on Liberty and Democracy', Review of Politics 23:3 (1961), 401-9

• David Nicholls, 'Positive Liberty, 1880-1914', American Political Science Review 56:1 (1962), 114-28

• David Nicholls, 'Newman's Anglican Critics', Anglican Theological Review 47:4 (1965), 377-94

• David Nicholls, 'What is Liberal Protestantism?', Theology (November 1965)

• David Nicholls, 'Developing Doctrines and Changing Beliefs', Scottish Journal of Theology 19:3 (1966), 280-92

• David Nicholls, 'The Totalitarianism of Thomas Arnold', Review of Politics 29:4 (1967), 518-26

• David Nicholls, 'Few are Chosen: Some Reflections on the Politics of A.J. Balfour', Review of Politics 30:1 (1968), 33-42

• David Nicholls, 'Modifications and Movements', Journal of Theological Studies 25:2 (1974), 393-417

• David Nicholls, 'A Comment on "Consent"', Political Studies 27:1 (1979), 120-24

• David Nicholls, 'Images of God and the State', Theological Studies 42:2 (1981), 195-215

• David Nicholls, 'Fractions', Crucible (January 1982)

• David Nicholls, 'Divine Analogy: the Theological Politics of John Donne', Political Studies 32:4 (1984)

• David Nicholls, 'William Temple and the Welfare State', Crucible (1984)

• David Nicholls, 'Deity and Domination', New Blackfriars (January-February 1985)

• David Nicholls, 'Conscience and Authority in the Thought of W.G. Ward', Heythrop Journal (October 1985)

• David Nicholls, 'Images of God in Liberation Theology', Third World Book Review 1:4-5 (1985)

• David Nicholls, 'Federal Politics and Finite God: Images of God in US Theology', Modern Theology 4:4 (1988)

• David Nicholls, 'The Political Theology of John Donne', Theological Studies 49:1 (1988)

• David Nicholls, 'Politics and the Church of England', Political Quarterly (April 1990)

• David Nicholls, 'Trinity and Conflict', Theology (January-February 1993)

• David Nicholls, 'Addressing God as Ruler: Prayer and Petition', British Journal of Sociology 44:1 (1993)

• David Nicholls, 'Parson Malthus: Process and Providence', Anglican Theological Review (1995)

• David Nicholls, 'Scepticism and Sovereignty: the Significance of Lamennais', New Blackfriars (April-May 1996)

Jubilee Group pamphlets

• David Nicholls, Principalities and Powers (London: Jubilee Group, 1979)

• David Nicholls, A Great Mystery: Reflections on the Lichfield Report (London: Jubilee Group, 1981)

• David Nicholls, Fractions: Christian Reflections on Foreign Aid (London: Jubilee Group, 1982)

• David Nicholls and Rowan Williams, Politics and Theological Identity: Two Anglican Essays (London: Jubilee Group, 1984)

• David Nicholls, God and Government (Croydon: Jubilee Group, 1992)

Series as general editor

• Faith and the Future (9 vols, Oxford: Blackwell, 1983)