Richard Hooker and the English Reformation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. The Orders of Grace and Nature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Priority of God’s Gracious Action in Richard Hooker’s Hermeneutic

      • Barry G. Rasmussen

      Pages 3-14

   3. Powers of Nature and Influences of Grace in Hooker’s Lawes

      • William H. Harrison

      Pages 15-24

   4. Grace and Hierarchy: Richard Hooker’s Two Platonisms

      • W. J. Torrance Kirby

      Pages 25-40

3. Providence and Predestination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Richard Hooker and the Debates about Predestination, 1580–1600

      • W. David Neelands

      Pages 43-61

   3. Richard Hooker on the Un-conditionality of Predestination

      • Daniel Eppley

      Pages 63-77

   4. Providence, Predestination, and Free Will in Richard Hooker’s Theology

      • Egil Grislis

      Pages 79-95

4. The Church and Common Prayer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Richard Hooker on the Identity of the Visible and Invisible Church

      • W. David Neelands

      Pages 99-110

   3. Angels descending and ascending: Hooker’s discourse on the ‘double motion’ of Common Prayer

      • W. J. Torrance Kirby

      Pages 111-129

   4. Sorrow and Solace: Richard Hooker’s Remedy for Grief

      • John K. Stafford

      Pages 131-147

5. Grace and the Sacraments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Presence and Absence: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Hermeneutic

      • Barry G. Rasmussen

      Pages 151-164

   3. ‘Participation of God Himselfe:’ Law, the mediation of Christ, and sacramental participation in the thought of Richard Hooker

      • Charles W. Irish

      Pages 165-184

   4. Grace, Sin, and Nature: Richard Hooker’s Theology of Baptism

      • John K. Stafford

      Pages 185-205

   5. Reflections on Richard Hooker’s Understanding of the Eucharist

      • Egil Grislis

      Pages 207-223

6. Polemics of Reform

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Language and Exclusion in the First Book of Hooker’s Politie

      • Rudolph P. Almasy

      Pages 227-242

P. G. STANWOOD OOKER, it might almost be said, is the name of a book rather than H the name of a man," wrote Christopher Morris in his introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of the first five books of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie. Now almost 100 years later, we know much more both about the book and the man. Of Hooker himself, C. J. Sisson's 1 Judicious Marriage of Mr. Hooker (1940) opened up and clarified many details of the life. His biographical research has been expanded in a number of ways, especially through the careful scrutiny and reassembling of Izaak Walton's early "official" Life (1666) by David Novarr in The Making of Walton's "Lives" (1958), and most recently by Jessica Martin in her fascinating study of Walton's Lives: Conformist Commemorations and the Rise of Biography (2001). Georges Edelen left his biography of Hooker unfinished at the time of his death, but much of his deep learning and scholarship is displayed in his detailed chronology of Hooker's life prefixed to the commentary volumes of the Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, and also in his editorial work on the Preface and Books I­ N of the Lawes in that edition. In addition, Philip Secor has recently published Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism (1999), a lively and engaging portrait aimed at a general audience.

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• McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  W. J. Torrance Kirby

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