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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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 ] Great Canal Journeys: how a bittersweet boating show captured viewers' hearts". The Guardian. 21 October 2019. 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, J.R. (1898). Divine Immanence: An Essay on the Spiritual Significance of Matter. London: Macmillan and Co. Illingworth's relative Christian orthodoxy distinguished him not only from contemporary idealists in general, but also from some of the other theistic idealists. It also made him turn against the excess of subjectivism and of the emphasis on feeling and individual, inner experience and private judgement in modern liberal theology, against which he sought to uphold the objective authority of the external, institutional life of the church and its dogmas and traditions. His strong aesthetic interests were satisfied by the sacraments and liturgy of the church as much as by the contemplation of nature. Although he accepted the scientific hypothesis of evolution and shared a broad Victorian faith in moral progress, he turned, especially towards the end of his life, against facile progressivism. And although he oscillated between orthodoxy and modern interpretations in his Christology and Trinitology, revelation and the dogma that necessarily followed from it, and the historical fact of the Incarnation, were the points of departure of his philosophy. The concrete particularity of Christ's historical personality is prior to, and controls and restrains, abstract speculation on the nature of God. An answer to the question of God's relation to the world is suggested by the analogy of our own experience as conscious persons of combined transcendence and immanence, but it is the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation that best embrace and express both these complementary aspects.

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. (1894). Personality, Human and Divine: Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1894. London: Macmillan and Co. Illingworth died on 22 August 1915 in Longworth, aged 67, [24] and was buried at St Mary's Church. [25] Selected works [ edit ] 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 2006, Scales appeared alongside Academy Award winners Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell in the mini-series The Shell Seekers.

Is Prunella Scales's father, John Richardson Illingworth, dead or alive?

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] a b Ransom, Teresa (2005). Prunella:The Authorised Biography of Prunella Scales. London, UK: John Murray. p.250. ISBN 9780719556975. 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). The International Who's Who of Women 2002, 3rd edition, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, 2000

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