J. R. Illingworth

The Reverend Canon
J. R. Illingworth
Born John Richardson Illingworth
(1848-06-26)26 June 1848
London, England
Died 22 August 1915(1915-08-22) (aged 67)
Longworth, England
Spouse(s)
Agnes Louisa Gutteres (m. 1883)
Ecclesiastical career
Religion Christianity (Anglicanism)
Church Church of England
Ordained
  • 1875 (deacon)
  • 1976 (priest)
Congregations served
 St Mary's Church, Longworth
Academic background
Alma mater Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Influences
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-discipline Philosophical theology[4]
School or tradition Liberal Anglo-Catholicism
Institutions

John Richardson Illingworth (1848–1915) 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.[5][6]

Early life and education

Illingworth was born in London on 26 June 1848[7] to an Anglo-Catholic family,[8] the second son of Edward Arthur Illingworth (1807–1883), chaplain to Middlesex House of Correction,[9] and his wife, Mary Taylor.[10] He was educated at St Paul's School, an all-boys public school in London.[11] As a child, he worshipped at St Alban's Church, Holborn, and at All Saints, Margaret Street.[11] He won both an exhibition and a scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.[12] He then studied literae humaniores (classical studies) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and achieved first-class honours in both mods and greats,[13] graduating in 1871 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[14]

In 1900, Illingworth was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree by the University of Edinburgh.[15][16]

Career

St Mary's Church, Longworth

From 1872 to 1883, Illingworth was a Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford, and a Tutor of Keble College, Oxford.[17] He was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1875 and as a priest in 1876.[18] From 1883 until his death, he was Rector of St Mary's Church, Longworth in the Diocese of Oxford.[17] 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.[17] In 1894, he gave the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford; the series was titled "Personality, Human and Divine".[19] He was made an honorary canon of Christ Church, Oxford, on 6 February 1905.[20]

Personal life

In June 1883, Illingworth became engaged to Agnes Louisa Gutteres.[21] They were married at St Bartholomew's Church in Nymet Rowland, Devon, on 2 August 1883.[22]

Illingworth died on 22 August 1915 in Longworth, aged 67,[23] and was buried at St Mary's Church.[24]

Selected works

  • Illingworth, J. R. (1881). Sermons Preached in a College Chapel. London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1889). "The Problem of Pain: Its Bearing on Faith in God". In Gore, Charles. Lux Mundi.
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1889). "The Incarnation in Relation to Development". In Gore, Charles. Lux Mundi.
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1893). University and Cathedral Sermons. London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1894). Personality, Human and Divine: Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1894. London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1898). Divine Immanence: An Essay on the Spiritual Significance of Matter. London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1902). Reason & Revelation: An Essay in Christian Apology. London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1907). The Doctrine of the Trinity Apologetically Considered. London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1911). Divine Transcendence and Its Reflection in Religious Authority. London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1915). The Gospel Miracles: An Essay with Two Appendices. London: Macmillan and Co.

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hoskins 1999, p. 193; Patrick 2009, pp. 260–261.
  2. 1 2 3 Patrick 2009, p. 260.
  3. ↑ Patrick 2009, p. 258.
  4. ↑ Cantelon 1951.
  5. ↑ "J. R. Illingworth". The Spectator. 3 November 1917. p. 8. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  6. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
  7. ↑ Bengtsson 2006.
  8. ↑ England 1997, p. 78.
  9. ↑ Foster 1893, p. 514; Venn & Venn 1947, p. 515.
  10. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 3.
  11. 1 2 A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 5.
  12. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 6.
  13. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 6; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
  14. ↑ Foster 1893, p. 514.
  15. ↑ "University Intelligence". The Times (36080). London. 3 March 1900. p. 8.
  16. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 174.
  17. 1 2 3 "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
  18. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 31.
  19. ↑ J. R. Illingworth 1894; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
  20. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 113; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
  21. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 67.
  22. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 72.
  23. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, pp. 290–291, 340; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
  24. ↑ Patrick 2009, p. 278.

Bibliography

Bengtsson, Jan Olof (2006). "Illingworth, John Richardson (1848–1915)". In Grayling, A. C.; Goulder, Naomi; Pyle, Andrew. The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-975469-4.
Cantelon, John Edward (1951). John Richardson Illingworth: Philosophical Theologian (PhD thesis). Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC 54824068.
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.
Foster, Joseph (1893). Oxford Men and Their Colleges, 1880–1892. Oxford: James Parker and Co.
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, Agnes Louisa, ed. (1917). The Life and Work of John Richardson Illingworth. London: John Murray. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
Illingworth, J. R. (1894). Personality, Human and Divine: Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1894. London: Macmillan and Co. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
"Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson". Who Was Who. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U187450.
Patrick, James A. (2009). "John Richardson Illingworth and Reason's Romance: The Idealist Apology in Late-Victorian England". Anglican and Episcopal History. 78 (3): 249–278. ISSN 0896-8039. JSTOR 42612781.
Venn, John; Venn, J. A. (1947). Alumni Cantabrigienses. 2 (3). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
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