The Life and Work of John Richardson Illingworth, M.A., D.D: As Portrayed by His Letters and Illustrated by Photographs (Classic Reprint)

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Credits". Strangerdangershort.co.uk. 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 21 July 2015. John Richardson Illingworth (26 June 1848 – 22 August 1915) was an English Anglican priest, philosopher, and theologian. He was a notable member of the set of liberal Anglo-Catholic theologians based in Oxford, and he contributed two chapters to the influential Lux Mundi. [6] [7] Early life and education [ edit ] Illingworth, J.R. (1889). "The Problem of Pain: Its Bearing on Faith in God". In Gore, Charles (ed.). Lux Mundi. Scales's husband first noticed that she was having minor difficulties when she was performing in a play in 2001. She was eventually diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2014. The diagnosis did not prevent her from taking part in Great Canal Journeys, in which she and her husband spoke openly about her illness. [30] Her declining health led the couple to leave the series in 2019. [31] Interviewed for the BBC in 2023, soon after celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary, West said, with reference to Scales's dementia: "Somehow we have coped with it and Pru doesn't really think about it." [30] Honours [ edit ] Scales joins Carrie's War in West End". OfficialLondonTheatre.com. 6 March 2009 . Retrieved 31 October 2017.

In 2006, Scales appeared alongside Academy Award winners Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell in the mini-series The Shell Seekers.From 1872 to 1883, Illingworth was a Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford, and a Tutor of Keble College, Oxford. [18] He was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1875 and as a priest in 1876. [19] From 1883 until his death, he was Rector of St Mary's Church, Longworth in the Diocese of Oxford. [18] He was also a Select Preacher of the University of Oxford from 1882 to 1891 and of the University of Cambridge from 1884 to 1895. [18] In 1894, he gave the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford; the series was titled "Personality, Human and Divine". [20] He was made an honorary canon of Christ Church, Oxford, on 6 February 1905. [21] Personal life [ edit ] Scales was born in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, the daughter of Catherine ( née Scales), an actress, and John Richardson Illingworth, a cotton salesman. [4] [5] Scales had a younger brother, Timothy "Timmo" Illingworth (1934–2017). [6] Illingworth, J.R. (1889). "The Incarnation in Relation to Development". In Gore, Charles (ed.). Lux Mundi.

Actor Samuel West, Prunella Scales and Timothy West's son, played Siegfried Farnon in the 2020 remake of the veterinary drama series All Creatures Great and Small. Great Canal Journeys: how a bittersweet boating show captured viewers' hearts". The Guardian. 21 October 2019 . Retrieved 9 January 2021.Hoskins, Richard (1999). "Social and Transcendent: The Trinitarian Theology of John Richardson Illingworth Re‐Examined". International Journal of Systematic Theology. 1 (2): 185–202. doi: 10.1111/1463-1652.00013. ISSN 1468-2400. Illingworth was born in London on 26 June 1848 [8] to an Anglo-Catholic family, [9] the second son of Edward Arthur Illingworth (1807–1883), chaplain to Middlesex House of Correction, [10] and his wife, Mary Taylor. [11] He was educated at St Paul's School, an all-boys public school in London. [12] As a child, he worshipped at St Alban's Church, Holborn, and at All Saints, Margaret Street. [12] He won both an exhibition and a scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. [13] He then studied literae humaniores ( classical studies) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and achieved first-class honours in both mods and greats, [14] graduating in 1871 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. [15]

Illingworth, Agnes Louisa, ed. (1917). The Life and Work of John Richardson Illingworth. London: John Murray . Retrieved 12 October 2018.

As in the broader current of personal idealism, a realistic element was introduced by the understanding of ultimate reality as individual persons in reciprocal relations, and also by a stronger emphasis on the independent reality of external nature, yet in its retention of the concept of the Absolute, and in its epistemology, its ethics, and its aesthetics, Illingworth's philosophy is clearly idealistic in a broader sense. The religious significance of matter and nature as revealing the presence of divine Spirit, as well as of the indwelling of God in man, were especially emphasized in Illingworth's early works, but in these he already rejected pure immanence and pantheism: ‘Spirit which is merely immanent in matter, without also transcending it, cannot be spirit at all; it is only another aspect of matter, having neither self-identity nor freedom.’ Pantheism ‘is merely materialism grown sentimental’ ( Divine Immanence, p. 69). In Divine Transcendence he turned against R. J. Campbell's radical immanentism and sentimentalism in The New Theology (1907). Noting the increasingly pantheistic use of the term ‘divine immanence’, which threatened moral freedom and blurred the distinction between good and evil, Illingworth regretted his earlier use, in Lux Mundi, of the expression ‘higher pantheism’, and, following Coleridge and the older criticism of pantheism, argued that without the notion of transcendence, ‘we can no longer distinguish between God and the universe except as different aspects of one and the same thing … they are only different ways of describing the same reality, which may equally well be called nature or God’ ( Divine Transcendence, pp. 68–9). Elaborating on such criticism, Illingworth argued, in a way that anticipates the later theological reaction against liberal idealism, that God is ‘our infinite and absolute Other. He is all that we are not’ ( Divine Transcendence, p. 16), and that the whole significance of ‘God's indwelling presence or immanence within us … depends upon the fact that God is our eternal Other, and not our self’ ( Divine Transcendence, p. 17). Illingworth was critical of mysticism for its obliteration of the distinction between God and man. ‘Man at the centre of his being is not God, but is capable of receiving God ( capax deitatis), while, as the result of that reception, his own individuality, his own “peculiar difference” is not pantheistically obliterated, but divinely intensified’ ( Divine Transcendence, p. 18) But he still insisted that both transcendence and immanence were necessary, as correlative conceptions guarding against undue confusion and separation respectively. Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson". Who Was Who. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014. doi: 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U187450. In June 1883, Illingworth became engaged to Agnes Louisa Gutteres. [22] They were married at St Bartholomew's Church in Nymet Rowland, Devon, on 2 August 1883. [23] In 1900, Illingworth was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree by the University of Edinburgh. [16] [17] Career [ edit ] St Mary's Church, Longworth Illingworth, J.R. (1915). The Gospel Miracles: An Essay with Two Appendices. London: Macmillan and Co.