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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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

Venn, John; Venn, J.A. (1947). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Vol. 2 (3). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.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). In 2006, Scales appeared alongside Academy Award winners Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell in the mini-series The Shell Seekers. Scales was born in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, the daughter of Catherine ( née Scales), an actress, and John Richardson Illingworth, a cotton salesman. [4] [5] Scales had a younger brother, Timothy "Timmo" Illingworth (1934–2017). [6] Ransom, Teresa (2005). Prunella: The Authorised Biography of Prunella Scales. London, UK: John Murray. ISBN 9780719556975.

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]Illingworth was formed by the idealism of T. H. Green but, as he significatively explained, using an analogy with the split in the Hegelian school in Germany, he joined what he called the Greenites of the Right, represented by Seth Pringle-Pattison, and turned against the Greenites of the Left, presumably absolute idealists such as F. H. Bradley and B. Bosanquet. Illingworth shared Green's general idealistic view of knowledge, and the analysis of scientistic materialism as caused by an illegitimate abstraction from the totality of concrete experience. Properly understood, science cannot contradict theology, and philosophy necessarily supplements its empirical hypotheses: although no philosophical system is ever ‘adequate or final’ ( Personality Human and Divine, p. 4), ‘the aim of philosophy is concrete knowledge of the world as a whole. It surveys all the different parts of experience … with a view to ascertaining their mutual relations and total significance; what is the nature of their connexion; what is their meaning as a whole’ ( Reason and Revelation, p. 103). Illingworth shared the Broad Church sensibilities of the kind of liberal theology that was susceptible to influences from the new idealism in that he insisted on the presence of true revelation in other religions. Philosophy must be founded on the whole of ‘the spiritual experience of mankind’, which is ‘the most important element in our total body of experience’ ( The Doctrine of the Trinity, p. 18).