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A Companion to Richard Hooker
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 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.
Contributors 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.
672 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 2008
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About the author
W.J. Torrance Kirby
13 books1 followerProfessor of Ecclesiastical History & Director, Centre for Research on Religion (CREOR)at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
"In 1988 I received a DPhil degree in Modern History from Oxford University for a thesis on the political theology of Richard Hooker. Previously I received BA and MA degrees in Classics (Greek Philosophy and Literature) from King's College and Dalhousie University. Currently I am Professor of Ecclesiastical History at McGill where I have been a member of the Faculty of Religious Studies since 1997. Since 1996 I have been a member of the Centre of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, and since 2005 of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
My principal field of research is Reformation thought, especially of Richard Hooker, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Heinrich Bullinger, and other 16th-century Protestant thinkers; my most recent publications examine theological links between England and the continent in the sixteenth century (my work here concentrates on the influence in England of the Italian, Swiss and French reformers). My research also focuses on the history of Christian Platonism, in the Patristic as well as in the late-medieval and early-modern periods. Currently I am investigating the emergence of the public sphere in early-modern England in the context of preaching at the outdoor pulpit at Paul's Cross in the City of London."
"In 1988 I received a DPhil degree in Modern History from Oxford University for a thesis on the political theology of Richard Hooker. Previously I received BA and MA degrees in Classics (Greek Philosophy and Literature) from King's College and Dalhousie University. Currently I am Professor of Ecclesiastical History at McGill where I have been a member of the Faculty of Religious Studies since 1997. Since 1996 I have been a member of the Centre of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, and since 2005 of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
My principal field of research is Reformation thought, especially of Richard Hooker, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Heinrich Bullinger, and other 16th-century Protestant thinkers; my most recent publications examine theological links between England and the continent in the sixteenth century (my work here concentrates on the influence in England of the Italian, Swiss and French reformers). My research also focuses on the history of Christian Platonism, in the Patristic as well as in the late-medieval and early-modern periods. Currently I am investigating the emergence of the public sphere in early-modern England in the context of preaching at the outdoor pulpit at Paul's Cross in the City of London."
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March 18, 2021
Le compagnon de Richard Hooker, de la maison Brill, édité par W.J Torrance Kirby est un ouvrage d'accompagnement au théologien fondateur de l'anglicanisme Richard Hooker, systématisant et résumant en quelques chapitres les subtilités de sa pensée.
Un défaut courant de ces ouvrages est d'être assemblés au hasard des contributions, mais ici, rien de tel: chaque chapitre a été mûrement défini, et s'intègre harmonieusement au tout, si bien que l'on couvre vraiment en l'espace de 700 pages l'intégralité du système de Richard Hooker, et plus encore.
Cependant, il est préférable d'avoir déjà lu Richard Hooker lui-même, auparavant: ce n'est pas un ouvrage d'introduction, mais un compagnon destiné à élargir et enrichir la lecture. Même en ayant déjà lu une partie des Lawes, la densité et la subtilité des chapitres m'a amené à devoir prendre beaucoup de temps pour lire chaque contribution. Complet, vaut le coût, mais relativement difficile à lire.
Un défaut courant de ces ouvrages est d'être assemblés au hasard des contributions, mais ici, rien de tel: chaque chapitre a été mûrement défini, et s'intègre harmonieusement au tout, si bien que l'on couvre vraiment en l'espace de 700 pages l'intégralité du système de Richard Hooker, et plus encore.
Cependant, il est préférable d'avoir déjà lu Richard Hooker lui-même, auparavant: ce n'est pas un ouvrage d'introduction, mais un compagnon destiné à élargir et enrichir la lecture. Même en ayant déjà lu une partie des Lawes, la densité et la subtilité des chapitres m'a amené à devoir prendre beaucoup de temps pour lire chaque contribution. Complet, vaut le coût, mais relativement difficile à lire.
September 23, 2011
Haven't read this in full yet--it's a huge volume, and some of the essays aren't relevant to my purposes. But I must say, this is extraordinarily good as such volumes go. The topics cover the full range of Hooker's life and thought, without much overlap or gaps left between, and they are of consistently high quality--thorough, insightful, well-written, many constituting major leaps forward in our understanding of Hooker's thought.
Too often, essay collections like this end up simply being a disorganised heap of highly-specialized and poorly-written studies that do not coordinate with one another in offering a coherent portrait of the subject. But this volume is proof that this need not be the case.
Neelands' essays on the Sacraments and on Predestination were particularly excellent and intriguing, and convinced me that perhaps Hooker really does have the answer to everything!
Too often, essay collections like this end up simply being a disorganised heap of highly-specialized and poorly-written studies that do not coordinate with one another in offering a coherent portrait of the subject. But this volume is proof that this need not be the case.
Neelands' essays on the Sacraments and on Predestination were particularly excellent and intriguing, and convinced me that perhaps Hooker really does have the answer to everything!
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