J. R. Illingworth

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]

The Reverend Canon J. R. Illingworth
Born	John Richardson Illingworth 26 June 1848 London, England
Died	22 August 1915 (aged 67) Longworth, England
Spouse(s)	Agnes Louisa Gutteres ​ ​ (m. 1883)​
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Anglicanism)
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1875 (deacon) 1876 (priest)
Congregations served	St Mary's Church, Longworth
Academic background
Alma mater	Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Influences	Augustine of Hippo[1] Robert Browning[2] T. H. Green[3] F. D. Maurice[4] John Henry Newman[2] John Ruskin[2]
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy theology
Sub-discipline	Philosophical theology[5]
School or tradition	Liberal Anglo-Catholicism
Institutions	Jesus College, Oxford Keble College, Oxford

Early life and education

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]

In 1900, Illingworth was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree by the University of Edinburgh.[16][17]

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.[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

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]

Illingworth died on 22 August 1915 in Longworth, aged 67,[24] and was buried at St Mary's Church.[25]

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 (ed.). Lux Mundi.
• Illingworth, J. R. (1889). "The Incarnation in Relation to Development". In Gore, Charles (ed.). 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. Patrick 2009, p. 260.
3. Patrick 2009, p. 258.
4. Avis, Paul (1989). "The Atonement". In Wainwright, Geoffrey (ed.). Keeping the Faith: Essays to Mark the Centenary of Lux Mundi. London. p. 137. Cited in Young 1992, p. 7.
5. Cantelon 1951.
6. "J. R. Illingworth". The Spectator. 3 November 1917. p. 8. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
7. A. L. Illingworth 1917; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
8. Bengtsson 2006.
9. England 1997, p. 78.
10. Foster 1893, p. 514; Venn & Venn 1947, p. 515.
11. A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 3.
12. A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 5.
13. A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 6.
14. A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 6; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
15. Foster 1893, p. 514.
16. "University Intelligence". The Times (36080). London. 3 March 1900. p. 8.
17. A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 174.
18. "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
19. A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 31.
20. J. R. Illingworth 1894; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
21. A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 113; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
22. A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 67.
23. A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 72.
24. A. L. Illingworth 1917, pp. 290–291, 340; "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
25. Patrick 2009, p. 278.

Bibliography

• Bengtsson, Jan Olof (2006). "Illingworth, John Richardson (1848–1915)". In Grayling, A. C.; Goulder, Naomi; Pyle, Andrew (eds.). 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.
• 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.

External links

• Online books by J. R. Illingworth