A companion to Richard Hooker / / edited by Torrance Kirby ; with a foreword by Rowan Williams.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Kirby, W. J. Torrance.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (710 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Richard Hooker was a learned philosophical theologian and engaged polemicist of the later sixteenth century who explained and defended the Elizabethan religious and political settlement, and shaped definitively the self-understanding of the English ecclesiastical establishment for centuries to come. This Companion to Richard Hooker brings together a representative body of contributors with a view to offering a summary of the current state of scholarly debate and a synthesis of emerging trends in criticism. Contributions to this volume reflect the major current trends of scholarly opinion on Hooker’s place within the mainstream of Protestant reform. This Companion aims to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to Richard Hooker’s life, works, thought, reputation, and influence. Contributors are: Rudolph P. Almasy, Daniel Eppley, Lee W. Gibbs, Egil Grislis, William Harrison, W. Speed Hill, Ranall Ingalls, Dean Kernan, Torrance Kirby, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A. S. McGrade, W. David Neelands, W. Brown Patterson, Debora K. Shuger, Corneliu C. Simuţ, John K. Stafford, Paul Stanwood, James F. Turrell, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / W.J.T. Kirby -- Chapter One. Life of Hooker / Lee W. Gibbs -- Chapter Two. Works and editions I / P. G. Stanwood -- Chapter Three. Works and editions II / W. Speed Hill -- Chapter Four. Classical, patristic, and medieval sources / A. S. Mcgrade -- Chapter Five. Elizabethan theological polemics / W. B. Patterson -- Chapter Six. Rhetoric and apologetics / Rudolph P. Almasy -- Chapter Seven. Sin and grace / Ranall Ingalls -- Chapter Eight. Predestination / W. David Neelands -- Chapter Nine. Faith and assurance / Debora K. Shuger -- Chapter Ten. Reason and law / W. J. Torrance Kirby -- Chapter Eleven. Scriptural hermeneutics / Egil Grislis -- Chapter Twelve. The church / William H. Harrison -- Chapter Thirteen. Uniformity and common prayer / James F. Turrell -- Chapter Fourteen. Christology and the sacraments / W. David Neelands -- Chapter Fifteen. Orders of ministry / Corneliu C. Simuţ -- Chapter Sixteen. Jurisdiction and the keys / Dean Kernan -- Chapter Seventeen. Episcopacy / A. S. Mcgrade -- Chapter Eighteen. Royal supremacy / Daniel Eppley -- Chapter Nineteen. Practical divinity / John K. Stafford -- Chapter Twenty. Richard Hooker’s reputation / Diarmaid Macculloch -- Select bibliography / Egil Grislis and John K. Stafford -- Index / W.J.T. Kirby.