David Nicholls (theologian)
David Gwyn Nicholls was an English Anglican priest, theologian, and Caribbean studies scholar who authored more than one hundred publications in the fields of political theology and Caribbean studies.
Biography
Born on 3 June 1936 in Woking, Surrey, David Nicholls was educated at Woking Grammar School, the London School of Economics, King's College, Cambridge, Yale Divinity School, and Chichester Theological College. He incepted as a Master of Arts of the University of Oxford by special decree and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by leave of the Faculties of History and Social Studies.Before studying for ordination, he was tutor at the University of Cambridge and the Workers' Educational Association. He was assistant chaplain to the University of London, a tutor at the London School of Economics and Regent Street Polytechnic, Lecturer in Government at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Race Relations, London, Official Fellow, Chaplain, and Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford, a Senior Member of St Antony's College, Oxford, Priest-in-charge, and later Vicar, of Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Littlemore, and Hulsean Lecturer at the University of Cambridge.
The David Nicholls Memorial Library at Regent's Park College, Oxford, is named in his memory.
David Nicholls was married to Gillian Sleigh from 1968 until his death in Oxford on 13 June 1996. Although they had no children, their household was augmented by a Macaw called William Paley, named after the philosopher.
Publications
Politics and theology
;Thesis- David Nicholls, Authority in Church and State: Aspects of the Thought of J.N. Figgis and his Contemporaries
- David Nicholls, Church and State in Britain Since 1820
- David Nicholls, Three Varieties of Pluralism
- David Nicholls, The Pluralist State: the political ideas of J.N. Figgis and his contemporaries
- David Nicholls, Deity and Domination: Images of God and the State in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- David Nicholls, God and Government in an Age of Reason
- David Nicholls and Fergus Kerr, eds, John Henry Newman: Reason, Rhetoric and Romanticism, and 'Individualism and the Appeal to Authority', ibid.
- 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
- David Nicholls, 'The Politics of Dr Norman', in Kenneth Leech, ed., Christianity Reinterpreted
- 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
- David Nicholls, 'Two Tendencies in Anglo-Catholic Political Theology', in Geoffrey Rowell, ed., Tradition Renewed: the Oxford Movement Conference Papers
- David Nicholls, 'Christianity and Politics', in Robert Morgan, ed., The Religion of the Incarnation: Anglican Essays in Commemoration of Lux Mundi
- David Nicholls, 'The Invisible Hand: Providence and the Market', in Paul Heelas and Paul Morris, eds, The Values of the Enterprise Culture
- David Nicholls, Prayer, Petition and Political Power, in Mart Bax and E. Koster, eds, Power and Prayer: Essays on Politics and Religion
- David Nicholls, 'Grace', in Paul Barry Clarke and Andrew Linzey, eds, Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society
- David Nicholls, 'A Short and Easy Method with Mr Cowling', Cambridge Journal
- David Nicholls, 'Authority and the Development of Doctrine', Theology
- David Nicholls, 'Gladstone on Liberty and Democracy', Review of Politics 23:3, 401-9
- David Nicholls, 'Positive Liberty, 1880-1914', American Political Science Review 56:1, 114-28
- David Nicholls, 'Newman's Anglican Critics', Anglican Theological Review 47:4, 377-94
- David Nicholls, 'What is Liberal Protestantism?', Theology
- David Nicholls, 'Developing Doctrines and Changing Beliefs', Scottish Journal of Theology 19:3, 280-92
- David Nicholls, 'The Totalitarianism of Thomas Arnold', Review of Politics 29:4, 518-26
- David Nicholls, 'Few are Chosen: Some Reflections on the Politics of A.J. Balfour', Review of Politics 30:1, 33-42
- David Nicholls, 'Modifications and Movements', Journal of Theological Studies 25:2, 393-417
- David Nicholls, 'A Comment on "Consent"', Political Studies 27:1, 120-24
- David Nicholls, 'Images of God and the State', Theological Studies 42:2, 195-215
- David Nicholls, 'Fractions', Crucible
- David Nicholls, 'Divine Analogy: the Theological Politics of John Donne', Political Studies 32:4
- David Nicholls, 'William Temple and the Welfare State', Crucible
- David Nicholls, 'Deity and Domination', New Blackfriars
- David Nicholls, 'Conscience and Authority in the Thought of W.G. Ward', Heythrop Journal
- David Nicholls, 'Images of God in Liberation Theology', Third World Book Review 1:4-5
- David Nicholls, 'Federal Politics and Finite God: Images of God in US Theology', Modern Theology 4:4
- David Nicholls, 'The Political Theology of John Donne', Theological Studies 49:1
- David Nicholls, 'Politics and the Church of England', Political Quarterly
- David Nicholls, 'Trinity and Conflict', Theology
- David Nicholls, 'Addressing God as Ruler: Prayer and Petition', British Journal of Sociology 44:1
- David Nicholls, 'Parson Malthus: Process and Providence', Anglican Theological Review
- David Nicholls, 'Scepticism and Sovereignty: the Significance of Lamennais', New Blackfriars
- David Nicholls, Principalities and Powers
- David Nicholls, A Great Mystery: Reflections on the Lichfield Report
- David Nicholls, Fractions: Christian Reflections on Foreign Aid
- David Nicholls and Rowan Williams, Politics and Theological Identity: Two Anglican Essays
- David Nicholls, God and Government
- Faith and the Future
Caribbean studies
- David Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti
- David Nicholls, Economic Dependence and Political Autonomy: the Haitian Experience
- David Nicholls, Haiti in Caribbean Context: Ethnicity, Economy and Revolt
- David Nicholls, Appendix to F. Duvalier & L. Denis, Die Klassenfrage in der Geschichte Haitis, pp. 102–9
- David Nicholls, 'Caste, Class and Colour in Haiti', in Cohn Clarke, ed., Caribbean Social Relations, pp. 4–16
- David Nicholls, 'Rural Protest and Peasant Revolt in Haiti, 1804-1869', in Malcolm Cross and Arnaud, eds, Peasants, Plantations and Rural Communities in the Caribbean
- David Nicholls, 'Past and Present in Haitian Politics', in Charles Foster and Albert Valdman, eds, Haiti—Today and Tomorrow: An Interdisciplinary Study
- David Nicholls, 'Cultural Dualism and Political Domination in Haiti', in Paul Sutton, ed., Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean
- David Nicholls, 'Haiti, c. 1870-1930', in Leslie Bethell, ed., The Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. 5
- David Nicholls, 'Haiti and the Dominican Republic', in Simon Collier, Harold Blakemore, and Thomas E. Skidmore, eds, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean
- David Nicholls, 'Haiti: Race, Slavery and Independence', in Léonie J. Archer, ed., Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour
- David Nicholls, 'Haiti', in A. Lowenthal, ed., Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Record 1986-7
- David Nicholls, 'Haiti: 1930 to present', in Leslie Bethell, ed., The Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. 7
- David Nicholls, 'Lebanese of the Antilles', in Albert Hourani and Nadim Shehadi, eds, The Lebanese in the World: a Century of Emigration
- David Nicholls, 'Sultanism in Haiti?', in H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, eds, Sultanistic Regimes
- David Nicholls, 'On controlling the Colonels', Hemisphere Report
- David Nicholls, 'Religion and Politics in Haiti', Canadian Journal of Political Science 3:3, 400-14
- David Nicholls, 'Embryo-politics in Haiti', Government and Opposition 6:1, 75-85
- David Nicholls, 'East Indians and Black Power in Trinidad', Race 12:4 443-60
- David Nicholls, 'Biology and Politics in Haiti', Race 13:2, 203-14
- David Nicholls, 'Dynastic Republicanism in Haiti', Political Quarterly 44:1, 77-84
- David Nicholls, 'A Work of Combat: Mulatto Historians and the Haitian Past, Journal of Interamerican Studies 16:1, 15-38
- David Nicholls, 'Ideology and Political Protest in Haiti, 1930-46', Journal of Contemporary History 9:4, 3-26
- David Nicholls, 'Idéologie et mouvements politiques en Haïiti, 1915-1946', Annales, Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations 30:4, 654-79
- David Nicholls, 'Poorest country of the Western World', The Geographical Magazine 50:1, 47-54
- David Nicholls, 'Race, couleur et indépendance en Haïti, 1804-1825', Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine 25, 177-212
- David Nicholls, 'The Wisdom of Salomon: myth or reality?', Journal of Interamerican Studies, 20:4, 377-392
- David Nicholls, 'Prosperous State of Unrest', The Geographical Magazine 51:8, 555-59
- David Nicholls, 'No Hawkers and Pedlars, Levantines in the Caribbean', Ethnic and Racial Studies 4:4, 415-31
- David Nicholls, 'Haiti's Dynastic Despotism', Caribbean Review 13:1
- David Nicholls, 'No More Duvalier but Still Divided', The Times
- David Nicholls, 'The Haitian Predicament'
- David Nicholls, 'The "Syrians" of Jamaica', The Jamaican Historical Review 15
- David Nicholls, 'Haiti: the Rise and Fall of Duvalierism', Third World Quarterly 8:4, 1239-1252
- David Nicholls, 'Pompée Valentin Vastey: Royalist and Revolutionary', Revista de Historia de America 109 and Jahrbuch für Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas 28