This is the first edtion of Richard Hooker's sermons in modern English. Hooker (1554-1600) is usually regarded as the founding theologian of the Anglican/Episcopal religious tradition. Many regard him as the closest counterpart in that tradition to Martin Luther for Lutherans or John Calvin for Presbyterians. These sermons reveal a pastoral side to Hooker that is at once wise, inspirational and consoling.

The Sermons of Richard Hooker : A Modern Edition

Secor, Philip B.

Society for Promoting Christia

Richard Hooker (1554-1600) is the premier theologian of the Anglican religious tradition. Portions of his great apologia for Anglicanism, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy, are still required reading in most Anglican seminaries and his ideas have been seminal for most other theologians in this denomination since the early seventeenth century. Unfortunately, Hooker's defining ideas about the Church, the sacraments, Holy Scripture, the incarnation, prayer, worship, the Trinity, church polity, and virtually every aspect of Anglican faith and worship are no longer accessible to most Christians. His writing style is too cumbersome for most modern readers to untangle. This is especially so of the most important of all of his religious writings: 'Book Five' of the Polity. To remedy this problem and make Hooker's timeless wisdom once again available to Christians inside the Anglican family and without, Dr. Secor has rendered Hooker's difficult prose in 'Book Five' into contemporary English, continuing the process of 'translation' begun in his acclaimed, The Sermons of Richard Hooker: A Modern Edition. Keble's nineteenth-century editions of Hooker's Works or the recent critical Folger Library Edition with its adherence to original spelling.

Richard Hooker on Anglican Faith and Worship: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity : Book V

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Society for Promoting Christian

This is the story of three men and a woman whose lives intersected in September of 1780 in such a way as at first to threaten and then to rescue the fledgling American Republic. Two of the men, Benedict Arnold and John Andres, are still remembered as maj

Patriot John, The Man Who Saved America: , The Man Who Saved America

Biographies & Memoirs

Heritage Books, Inc.

Richard Hooker (1554-1600) is arguably the closest counterpart in the English Reformation to Luther and Calvin. The premier theologian of the Church of England, he is famed for his prophetic apologia of what would later be called "Anglicanism" in his "Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity". To this day, Hooker's advocacy of a tolerant, inclusive, moderate, even pragmatic middle way between fundamentalist Protestantism and the more rigid expressions of Roman Catholicism is a hallmark of Anglican and Episcopal churches. Here, the story of Hooker's life is woven into a narrative that incorporates the well-known events and famous persons of the Elizabethan era.

Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism

Continuum International Publishing Group

This long-neglected figure is arguably the closest counterpart in the English Reformation to Luther and Calvin. This new biography is the culmination of fifteen years of intensive research into Hooker's life and thought.

In Search of Richard Hooker

Anglican Book Centre