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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.
Richard Hooker, (born March 1554?, Heavitree, Exeter, Devon, Eng.—died Nov. 2, 1600, Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury, Kent), English clergyman and theologian. He attended the University of Oxford, became a fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1577, and was ordained in 1581.
Richard Hooker’s one book, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593-1662), constitutes the most important theological defense of Anglicanism’s Protestant via media. Hooker would restore to Protestants something of the Aristotelian judiciousness that Thomas Aquinas three centuries earlier sought for Roman Catholics.
“Richard Hooker: Interpretation of Doctrine and Polity”; round table dis- cussion, panelist at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Denver; October 25−28, 2001)
Feb 9, 2016 · Littlejohn takes seriously the role defined for his book by its sub-titular label as a "companion" to the life and work of the sixteenth-century English divine Richard Hooker.
Richard Hooker (March 1554 – November 3, 1600) was an influential Anglican theologian, regarded, together with Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker, as a co-founder of Anglican theology. He was also important as an early proponent of the Anglo-American system of constitutional law.
May 17, 2018 · HOOKER, RICHARD (1554 – 1600), was an apologist and theologian of the Church of England, famous for his work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (hereafter cited as Laws). Born at Heavitree near Exeter, Hooker received his basic education in the Exeter Grammar School .
Jan 5, 2009 · Richard Hooker's theology of law was rarely far from pragmatic concerns. He wanted to promote a peaceful and prosperous human community before God while holding that moral right consists in conformity to the divine will.
Although by common consent the greatest theologian of the Anglican tradition, Richard Hooker is little known in Protestant circles more generally, and increasingly neglected within the Anglican...
