Law and Revelation: Richard Hooker and His Writings

by Richard Hooker

Publisher:

Canterbury Press

, 2009

Overview

Richard Hooker is widely regarded as the leading apologist of the Elizabethan age. Much of Anglicanism as we know it today owes its character to the course Hooker deftly charted between Catholic and Protestant claims. His Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity set out the constitution of the Church of England, and represent a philosophical and theological outlook that is characteristic of Anglicanism to this day. He opposed a literal and absolute interpretation of Scripture and instead advocated an appeal that incorporated reason–which remains the response of mainstream Anglicanism to complex ethical and moral questions today. This volume sets Richard Hooker’s life in the context of contemporary parties and opinions within the Elizabethan Church and provides an extensive reader of his original work in the fields of Scripture, reason, tradition, doctrines and the governance of the Church.

Key Features

• Includes selected writings from Richard Hooker
• Offers commentary on the life of Richard Hooker
• Explore’s Anglican history

Contents

• Concerning the present state of the Church of God
• Concerning Laws and their several kinds in general
• Concerning Sufficiency of Holy Scripture
• That which the general principles and rules of Scripture potentially claim
• To alter unnecessarily the ancient received custom of the whole Church
• The general maintenance and defence of our whole Church service
• Matter belonging to the power of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
• Whether Ecclesiastical regiment by Bishops be lawful in the Church
• The Church and Commonwealth do flourish together

Product Details

• Title: Law and Revelation: Richard Hooker and His Writings
• Author: Richard Hooker
• Series: Canterbury Studies in Spiritual Theology
• Publisher: Canterbury Press
• Print Publication Date: 2009
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Church polity › Early works to 1800; Ecclesiastical law › Early works to 1800; Church of England › Doctrines--Early works to 1800
• ISBNs: 9781853119910, 1853119911
• Resource ID: LLS:LWRVLTNHSWRTNGS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:26:22Z

About Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker (March 1554–3 November 1600) was an Anglican priest and an influential theologian. Hooker’s emphases on reason, tolerance and the value of tradition came to exert a lasting influence on the development of the Church of England. In retrospect he has been taken as a founder of Anglicanism in its theological thought.