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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Young, David (1992). F.D. Maurice and Unitarianism. Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263395.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-826339-5 . Retrieved 21 May 2019. 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 ] In 1992 Scales appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Her chosen book was the Complete Works of Shakespeare in German, the Bible in Russian, and a Russian dictionary; her luxury item was "a huge tapestry kit". [24]

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 ] Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales [1] [2] CBE ( née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is a retired English actor. She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty ( John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers, Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution ( Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett (for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award) [3] and appeared in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), travelling on canal barges and narrowboats with her husband, fellow actor Timothy West. England, Richard (1997). Aubrey Moore and the Anglo-Catholic Assimilation of Science in Oxford (PhD thesis). Toronto: University of Toronto. hdl: 1807/11055. ISBN 978-0-612-27641-3. Scales voiced the speaking ("cawing") role of Magpie, the eponymous thief in a 2003 recording of Gioachino Rossini's opera La gazza ladra ( The Thieving Magpie). 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.Fawlty Towers almost didn't happen for Prunella Scales, according to John Cleese". Daily Mirror. London: Trinity Mirror. 8 May 2009. ISSN 9975-9950. OCLC 223228477 . Retrieved 21 July 2015. Illingworth, J.R. (1889). "The Incarnation in Relation to Development". In Gore, Charles (ed.). Lux Mundi. Ad hoc: Tesco thinks again as Dotty takes her leave". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 9 January 2021.

In 2000, Scales appeared in the film The Ghost of Greville Lodge as Sarah. The same year, she appeared as Eleanor Bunsall in Midsomer Murders ' "Beyond the Grave". In 2001, she appeared in two episodes of Silent Witness ' "Faith" as Mrs Parker. In 2003, she appeared as Hilda, "she who must be obeyed", wife of Horace Rumpole, in four BBC Radio 4 plays, with Timothy West playing her fictional husband. Scales and West toured Australia at the same time in different productions. Scales appeared in a one-woman show called An Evening with Queen Victoria, which also featured the tenor Ian Partridge singing songs written by Prince Albert. Scales has performed An Evening with Queen Victoria more than 400 times, in theatres around the world, over the course of 30 years. [14] From 1997 to 2002 Scales was president of CPRE, at that time known as the Council for the Protection of Rural England. [29] Vascular dementia [ edit ]Tesco to resurrect 'Dotty' concept in major Christmas TV ad campaign". www.campaignlive.co.uk . Retrieved 9 January 2021. Ransom, Teresa (2005). Prunella: The Authorised Biography of Prunella Scales. London, UK: John Murray. ISBN 9780719556975.

Illingworth, J.R. (1915). The Gospel Miracles: An Essay with Two Appendices. London: Macmillan and Co. John Richardson Illingworth was born in London on 26 June 1848 and died in Longworth, Oxfordshire on 21 August 1915. He was the son of a prison chaplain in London, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became Fellow of Jesus College and tutor at Keble College at the same university in 1872. He was ordained priest in 1876. For reasons of health he withdrew from academic life to the rectory of Longworth, Oxfordshire, in 1883, where he remained for the rest of his life despite several offers of academic positions. He declined to give the Gifford Lectures in 1902, but received an honorary doctorate of divinity from Edinburgh University in the same year. Illingworth became a member of the Lux Mundi group and contributed two essays to Lux Mundi in 1889. Illingworth, Agnes Louisa, ed. (1917). The Life and Work of John Richardson Illingworth. London: John Murray . Retrieved 12 October 2018. A central issue that distinguished the movement of personal idealism was its insistence, against the Absolute idealists, that the Absolute must be understood as personal and identical with the God of theism, that personality is not essentially finite and relative. Illingworth was one among many who cited and developed Lotze's argument that finitude is not a precondition of personality, but rather a hindrance to its full development, and that perfect personality was therefore to be found only in God. Illingworth defended the fundamental theistic position that God is self-contained and independent of necessary relation to creation, turning against the pantheistic position of German idealism and later process theology according to which God realizes himself through the evolutionary development of the universe and is thus dependent on the latter: ‘we might say that His purpose is increasingly realized, but not His person’ ( Divine Transcendence, p. 49). But in contradistinction to the personal idealists Rashdall and Sorley, he also rejected the conception of the Absolute as the ‘totality of all existence’, ‘the world-ground together with the world’, ‘God together with creation’, as ‘practically meaningless’, since ‘we can attach no common predicate, beyond that of bare existence, to such an absolute’ ( Divine Transcendence, p. 14). He insisted that

Scales is married to the actor Timothy West, with whom she has two sons; the elder is actor and director Samuel West. Their younger son Joseph participated in two episodes of Great Canal Journeys filmed in France. Scales also has a step-daughter, Juliet, by West's first marriage. Scales started her career in 1951 as an assistant stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic. But she has stated "I have always wanted to be an actor". [9] Throughout her career, she has often been cast in comic roles. Her early work included the (now believed to be lost) second UK adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (1952), Laxdale Hall (1953), Hobson's Choice (1954), The Matchmaker on Broadway (1955), Room at the Top (1959) and Waltz of the Toreadors (1962). 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. Ransom, Teresa (2005). Prunella: The Authorised Biography of Prunella Scales. London, UK: John Murray. p.237. ISBN 9780719556975.