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Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) [2] was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian. [3] He was one of the most important English theologians of the sixteenth century. [ 4 ]
Richard Hooker (born March 1554?, Heavitree, Exeter, Devon, England—died November 2, 1600, Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury, Kent) was a theologian who created a distinctive Anglican theology and who was a master of English prose and legal philosophy.
Richard Hooker, who lived toward the end of the reign of Elizabeth I in England, is reputed the founder of the Anglican theology of comprehensiveness and tolerance. If we want to see how Richard Hooker, as The Anglican theologian does his theology, we can look at his controversy with Walter Travers when they both served the Temple Church in London.
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.
Volume 1 of the writings of Richard Hooker, including the editor’s introduction and the first 4 Books of his best known work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1594-97).
“Richard Hooker: Interpretation of Doctrine and Polity”; round table dis- cussion, panelist at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Denver; October 25−28, 2001)
RICHARD HOOKER (1554–1600) and NATURAL LAW Robert Faulkner, Boston College . Richard Hooker’s one book, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593-1662), constitutes the most important theological defense of Anglicanism’s Protestant via media.
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.From 1584 until his death in 1600, Hooker served as a clergyman in several prominent Anglican churches.
Nov 22, 2010 · Richard Hooker is oftentimes described as the founding figure of the Anglican tradition. This is, however well intentioned, a half-truth. It is certainly true that Hooker’s great, unfinished theological work, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie (hereafter, Laws), was a key text in Anglican arguments against Puritanism.
Feb 23, 2012 · The Elizabethan Anglican divine Richard Hooker (1554–1600) is often credited with being the founding father of Anglican moral theology. This book is the first major study to examine in depth the extent to which this claim is justified, and to evaluate the nature of Hooker's contribution to this aspect of Anglican tradition.
