Richard Hooker and the English Reformation / edited by W.J. Torrance Kirby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirby, W. J. Torrance.

Series:

Studies in early modern religious reforms ; v. 2.

Studies in early modern religious reforms ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 1554-1600.

Hooker, Richard.

Reformation--England.

Reformation.

England.

Physical Description:

xx, 339 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

This collection of seventeen essays addresses the substance ofRichard Hooker's achievement as a theologian and philosopher in thecontext of principal themes of English Reformation thought. Hooker hasbeen variously described as a Protestant scholastic, RenaissanceAristotelian, Erasmian humanist, Thomist, moderate Calvinist, andfounder of a distinctive new theological method. The main thrust ofthese essays is to weigh such protean claims against careful readingsof his oeuvre. Five principal loci of Reformation discourse areaddressed: 1) the relation between the "orders" of Grace and Nature; 2) the doctrines of Providence and Predestination; 3) the Church andthe liturgy; 4) sacramental theology; and 5) the polemicalcut-and-thrust of the late-Elizabethan context. Scholars, seminarians, and students alike will find that this volume offers a fresh, criticalillumination of Hooker's distinctive contribution to sixteenth-centuryreligious reform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-318) and index.

ISBN:

1402017049

OCLC:

53242817