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Richard Hooker


Born
The United Kingdom
Died
November 03, 1600

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Richard Hooker (March 1554 – 3 November 1600) was an Anglican priest and an influential theologian. Hooker's emphases on reason, tolerance and the value of tradition considerably influenced the development of Anglicanism. He was the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker) of Anglican theological thought. Hooker's great Elizabethan guide to Church Government and Discipline is both a masterpiece of English prose and one of the bulwarks of the Established Church in England. Hooker projected eight books for the great work. The first four books of Ecclesiastical Polity appeared in 1593, Book V in 1597. Hooker died in 1600 at the age of forty-six and the remaining three books were completed, though not revised, before his death. The m ...more

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“Doctrines such as the unity of God, the trinity of Persons, salvation in Christ, the resurrection of the body, eternal life, the judgment to come, and so forth have all existed since the beginning of the Church, and must be believed to the end.”
Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity In Modern English, Vol. 1

“In this present age, zeal has conquered charity, and rhetoric has drowned meekness.”
Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity In Modern English, Vol. 1

“It is much easier to teach men by law what they should do, than to teach them how to rightly think of the law. Everyone must do the former, while none but the wisest and most judicious of men can do the latter.”
Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity In Modern English, Vol. 1

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