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Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian. He was one of the most important English theologians of the sixteenth century. [4]
Richard Hooker was a theologian who created a distinctive Anglican theology and who was a master of English prose and legal philosophy. In his masterpiece, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, which was incomplete at the time of his death, Hooker defended the Church of England against both.
- John S. Marshall
Abstract: Although Richard Hooker's private attitudes were clericalist and authori tarian, his constitutional theory subordinated clergymen to laymen and monarchy to parliamentary statute.
May 10, 2018 · Richard Hooker's understanding of political society has engendered significant debate. Does he hold that society is natural, in keeping with his commitment to aspects of Aristotelianism? Or does he believe that society is conventional, leading somehow to a social contractarian conception of society?
- Simon P. Kennedy
- 2019
Jun 8, 2023 · Richard Hooker (1554 - 1600) was arguably the greatest theologian of the early Anglican Church, and his Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity was the masterpiece of its foundational thought. Hooker wrote this work in the 1590s during the closing years of Elizabeth’s Golden Era.
“Richard Hooker: Interpretation of Doctrine and Polity”; round table dis- cussion, panelist at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Denver; October 25−28, 2001)
Feb 23, 2019 · At the centre of Hooker’s study “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity” is the relationship between Scripture, Authority and Tradition, and the role of human reason in embracing Christ’s salvific message.
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