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Law and Revelation

Richard Hooker and His Writings

  • Paperback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Canterbury Press
  • 20.6 x 23.1 x 1.7 cm

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Richard Hooker (1554-1600) is widely regarded not only as the leading apologist of the Elizabethan age, but one of Anglicanism's most accomplished and influential thinkers of all time. 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 published in seven volumes, set out the constitution of the Church of England, and enshrine 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.
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  • Author

    Raymond Chapman

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Canterbury Press

  • Published

    October 2009

  • Weight

    300g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    20.6 x 23.1 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781853119910

  • ISBN-10

    1853119911

  • Eden Code

    2393691

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    Hooker is a joy to read and reminds the reader that this contemporary of Shakespeare comes at the time of the great flowering of English as a written vehicle of literature. He also has penned the classic Apologia for the Church of England. The position of being the ancient catholic church of this land, albeit reformed, and the Via Media between Protestantism and Papacy, is fundamental to his argument and could be well-remembered today when Anglicanism is going through a period of crisis in its sense of self-identity, with Evangelicalism on the one hand (roughly parallel to the Puritans of Hooker’s day) and Ultramontanism (on the other). It’s a disturbing historical fact that the Puritans eventually won the day at the Civil War and abolished the Church of England altogether until the Restoration when it had to be re-imposed by force. The quotations are derived from all eight books and as the edition proceeds it has to be said that the going gets heavier, not least because the concentration required is pretty remorseless and the argument seems more arcane than it actually is, because of the effort required with the language. The Fifth Book is, however, both the longest and the most important. Nevertheless, the portions selected represent the main drift of the writings and are tolerably clear. Editing is kept to a minimum, especially as regards footnotes. Mercifully, spelling is modernized and standardized, and the text is rendered as digestible as possible. Altogether, a most useful and accessible tool in surveying the Church of England in the generation immediately following the Reformation when the Age of Persecution was gradually turning into the Age of Polemic.

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