The evolving reputation of Richard Hooker : an examination of responses, 1600-1714 / Michael Brydon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brydon, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 1554-1600.

Hooker, Richard.

Theology--History--17th century.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Richard Hooker has long been viewed as one of England's great theological and political writers. When he died, however, at the end of the sixteenth century, his writings had proved to be something of a damp squib. This book examines, against the background of the political and religious crises of the seventeenth century, how he came to rise from comparative obscurity to be regarded as a universal authority. It will be seen how an unintended alliance of Reformed Protestants,suspicious of Hooker, and Catholics, anxious to exploit his perceived sympathies, led to his establishment as a distinctiv

Contents:

Contents; Note on the Text; Introduction; 1. Hooker and the Jacobeans; 2. The Road Towards an Anglican Icon: The Treatment of Hooker under Charles I and the Commonwealth; 3. The Establishment of Anglican Triumphalism; 4. The Zenith and Slow Decline of Hooker as the Icon of Restoration Anglicanism; 5. The Mask of Discontinuity: Hooker in the Reigns of James II and William and Mary; 6. The Indian Summer of Restoration Anglicanism: Queen Anne and the Tory Revival; Hooker's Reputation: A Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-227) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4356-2117-4

1-280-75380-3

0-19-152549-9

9786610753802

OCLC:

560550131