J. R. Illingworth

{{Short description|English Anglican priest, philosopher, and theologian}}

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| birth_name = John Richardson Illingworth

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1848|6|26}}

| birth_place = London, England

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| death_place = Longworth, England

| spouse = {{marriage|Agnes Louisa Gutteres|1883}}

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| religion = Christianity (Anglican)

| church = Church of England

| ordained = {{unbulleted list | 1875 (deacon) | 1876 (priest)}}

| congregations = St Mary's Church, Longworth

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| alma_mater = Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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| school_tradition = Liberal Anglo-Catholicism

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Augustine of Hippo{{sfnm |1a1=Hoskins |1y=1999 |1p=193 |2a1=Patrick |2y=2009 |2pp=260–261}}
Robert Browning{{sfn|Patrick|2009|p=260}}
T. H. Green{{sfn|Patrick|2009|p=258}}
F. D. Maurice{{cite book |last=Avis |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Avis |year=1989 |chapter=The Atonement |editor-last=Wainwright |editor-first=Geoffrey |editor-link=Geoffrey Wainwright |title=Keeping the Faith: Essays to Mark the Centenary of Lux Mundi |location=London |page=137}} Cited in {{harvnb|Young|1992|p=7}}.
John Henry Newman{{sfn|Patrick|2009|p=260}}
John Ruskin{{sfn|Patrick|2009|p=260}}

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| sub_discipline = Philosophical theology{{sfn|Cantelon|1951}}

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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.{{cite news|title=J. R. Illingworth|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/3rd-november-1917/8/j-r-illingworth|accessdate=5 April 2017|work=The Spectator|date=3 November 1917|page=8}}{{sfnm |1a1=A. L. Illingworth |1y=1917 |2a1="Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" |2y=2014}}

Early life and education

Illingworth was born in London on 26 June 1848{{sfn|Bengtsson|2006}} to an Anglo-Catholic family,{{sfn|England|1997|p=78}} the second son of Edward Arthur Illingworth (1807–1883), chaplain to Middlesex House of Correction,{{sfnm |1a1=Foster |1y=1893 |1p=514 |2a1=Venn |2a2=Venn |2y=1947 |2p=515}} and his wife, Mary Taylor.{{sfn|A. L. Illingworth|1917|p=3}} He was educated at St Paul's School, an all-boys public school in London.{{sfn|A. L. Illingworth|1917|p=5}} As a child, he worshipped at St Alban's Church, Holborn, and at All Saints, Margaret Street.{{sfn|A. L. Illingworth|1917|p=5}} He won both an exhibition and a scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.{{sfn|A. L. Illingworth|1917|p=6}} He then studied literae humaniores (classical studies) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and achieved first-class honours in both mods and greats,{{sfnm |1a1=A. L. Illingworth |1y=1917 |1p=6 |2a1="Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" |2y=2014}} graduating in 1871 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.{{sfn|Foster|1893|p=514}}

In 1900, Illingworth was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree by the University of Edinburgh.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=University Intelligence|date=3 March 1900 |page=8 |issue=36080| }}{{sfn|A. L. Illingworth|1917|p=174}}

Career

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From 1872 to 1883, Illingworth was a Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford, and a Tutor of Keble College, Oxford.{{sfn|"Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson"|2014}} He was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1875 and as a priest in 1876.{{sfn|A. L. Illingworth|1917|p=31}} From 1883 until his death, he was Rector of St Mary's Church, Longworth in the Diocese of Oxford.{{sfn|"Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson"|2014}} 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.{{sfn|"Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson"|2014}} In 1894, he gave the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford; the series was titled "Personality, Human and Divine".{{sfnm |1a1=J. R. Illingworth |1y=1894 |2a1="Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" |2y=2014}} He was made an honorary canon of Christ Church, Oxford, on 6 February 1905.{{sfnm |1a1=A. L. Illingworth |1y=1917 |1p=113 |2a1="Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" |2y=2014}}

Personal life

In June 1883, Illingworth became engaged to Agnes Louisa Gutteres.{{sfn|A. L. Illingworth|1917|p=67}} They were married at St Bartholomew's Church in Nymet Rowland, Devon, on 2 August 1883.{{sfn|A. L. Illingworth|1917|p=72}}

Illingworth died on 22 August 1915 in Longworth, aged 67,{{sfnm |1a1=A. L. Illingworth |1y=1917 |1pp=290–291, 340 |2a1="Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" |2y=2014}} and was buried at St Mary's Church.{{sfn|Patrick|2009|p=278}}

Selected works

{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |title=Sermons Preached in a College Chapel |date=1881 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/sermonspreachedi00illiuoft}}
{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |editor1-last=Gore |editor1-first=Charles |title=Lux Mundi |date=1889 |chapter=The Problem of Pain: Its Bearing on Faith in God}}
{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |editor1-last=Gore |editor1-first=Charles |title=Lux Mundi |date=1889 |chapter=The Incarnation in Relation to Development}}
{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |title=University and Cathedral Sermons |date=1893 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/universityandcat00illiuoft}}
{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |title=Personality, Human and Divine: Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1894 |date=1894 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029214677}}
{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |title=Divine Immanence: An Essay on the Spiritual Significance of Matter |date=1898 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/divineimmanencee00illiiala}}
{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |title=Reason & Revelation: An Essay in Christian Apology |date=1902 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/reasonrevelation00illiuoft}}
{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |title=The Doctrine of the Trinity Apologetically Considered |date=1907 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/doctrineoftrinit00illiuoft}}
{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |title=Divine Transcendence and Its Reflection in Religious Authority |date=1911 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/divinetranscend00illiuoft}}
{{cite book |last1=Illingworth |first1=J. R. |title=The Gospel Miracles: An Essay with Two Appendices |date=1915 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009795484}}

References

=Footnotes=

=Bibliography=

{{cite encyclopedia

|last=Bengtsson

|first=Jan Olof

|year=2006

|title=Illingworth, John Richardson (1848–1915)

|editor1-last=Grayling

|editor1-first=A. C.

|editor1-link=A. C. Grayling

|editor2-last=Goulder

|editor2-first=Naomi

|editor3-last=Pyle

|editor3-first=Andrew

|editor3-link=Andrew Pyle (philosopher)

|encyclopedia=The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy

|location=Oxford

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|isbn=978-0-19-975469-4

}}

{{cite thesis

|last=Cantelon

|first=John Edward

|year=1951

|title=John Richardson Illingworth: Philosophical Theologian

|degree=PhD

|location=Oxford

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|oclc=54824068

}}

{{cite thesis

|last=England

|first=Richard

|year=1997

|title=Aubrey Moore and the Anglo-Catholic Assimilation of Science in Oxford

|degree=PhD

|location=Toronto

|publisher=University of Toronto

|hdl=1807/11055

|hdl-access=free

|isbn=978-0-612-27641-3

}}

{{cite book

|last=Foster

|first=Joseph

|author-link=Joseph Foster (genealogist)

|year=1893

|title=Oxford Men and Their Colleges, 1880–1892

|location=Oxford

|publisher=James Parker and Co.

}}

{{cite journal

|last=Hoskins

|first=Richard

|year=1999

|title=Social and Transcendent: The Trinitarian Theology of John Richardson Illingworth Re-Examined

|journal=International Journal of Systematic Theology

|volume=1

|issue=2

|pages=185–202

|doi=10.1111/1463-1652.00013

|issn=1468-2400

}}

{{cite book

|year=1917

|editor-last=Illingworth

|editor-first=Agnes Louisa

|title=The Life and Work of John Richardson Illingworth

|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeworkofjohnri00illiiala

|location=London

|publisher=John Murray

|access-date=12 October 2018

|ref={{sfnref|A. L. Illingworth|1917}}

}}

{{cite book

|last=Illingworth

|first=J. R.

|year=1894

|title=Personality, Human and Divine: Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1894

|url=https://archive.org/details/personalityhuman189400illi

|location=London

|publisher=Macmillan and Co.

|access-date=12 October 2018

|ref={{sfnref|J. R. Illingworth|1894}}

}}

{{cite encyclopedia

|year=2014

|title=Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson

|encyclopedia=Who Was Who

|location=Oxford

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U187450

|ref={{sfnref|"Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson"|2014}}

}}

{{cite journal

|last=Patrick

|first=James A.

|year=2009

|title=John Richardson Illingworth and Reason's Romance: The Idealist Apology in Late-Victorian England

|journal=Anglican and Episcopal History

|volume=78

|issue=3

|pages=249–278

|issn=0896-8039

|jstor=42612781

}}

{{cite book

|last1=Venn

|first1=John

|author-link=John Venn

|last2=Venn

|first2=J. A.

|author2-link=John Archibald Venn

|year=1947

|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses

|volume=2 (3)

|location=Cambridge, England

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

}}

{{cite book

|last=Young

|first=David

|year=1992

|title=F. D. Maurice and Unitarianism

|url=https://archive.org/details/fdmauriceunitari00youn

|url-access=limited

|location=Oxford

|publisher=Clarendon Press

|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263395.001.0001

|isbn=978-0-19-826339-5

|access-date=21 May 2019

}}

External links

[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Illingworth%2C%20J.%20R.%20(John%20Richardson)%2C%201848-1915 Online books by J. R. Illingworth]

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