Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity...

by Richard Hooker

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Genres: Theology, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Christianity, Religion, Politics, Church

124 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1593

About the author

Richard Hooker is the pseudonym of Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. who was born February 1, 1924 and died November 4, 1997. He was an American writer and surgeon. His most famous work was his novel MASH (1968). The novel was based on his own personal experiences during the Korean War at the 8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. It was written in collaboration with W. C. Heinz. The novel took 11 years to write. In 1970, and then again from 1972-1983 it was used as the basis for a critically and commercially successful movie and television series of the same name.

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Reviews

[Fran]

me reading about drama that happened literally hundreds of years ago

[Etienne OMNES]

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity est un livre de Richard Hooker qui est une réponse de l'évêque anglican Richard Hooker aux puritains de son époque au sujet des lois et de la liturgie légitime des église protestantes d'Angleterre. Il définit dans le livre I la métaphysique des lois, puis les justes limites des lois d'églises, puis il examine la légitimité des différentes pratiques liturgiques de l'Eglise d'Angleterre et défend la liturgie "haute" propre à l'Eglise anglicane.

Sans aucun doute, Richard Hooker est un auteur très convaincant et très érudit. Cependant, j'ai eu de grandes difficultés à lire l'ancien anglais. Ne pas hésiter à lire une version modernisée. Le livre I est intéressant pour tous les chrétiens intéressés par la Loi Naturelle, car le traitement est vraiment très bon. Surtout que c'est un traitement réformé. Les livres suivants sont intéressant pour les réformés qui s'intéressent à la liturgie et les règles liturgiques.

[Jared]

“The stateliness of houses, the godliness of trees, when we behold them delighteth the eye; but that foundation which bearereth up the one, that root which ministereth unto the other nourishment and life, is in the bosom of the earth concealed: and if there be at any time occasion to search unto it, such labour is then more necessary than pleasant both to them which undertake it, and for the lookers on. In like manner the use and benefit of good laws, all that life under them may enjoy with delight and comfort, albeit the grounds, and first original causes from whence they have sprung be unknown, as to the greatest part of men they are. But when they who withdraw their obedience pretend that the laws which they should obey are corrupts and vicious; for better examination of their quality, it behoveth the very foundation and root, the highest wellspring and foundation of them to be discovered.”

[Gareth]

A classical defence of the Church of England position passing through an attack on Presbyterian methods into a Protestant CofE explanation of the order of the world into a defence of the Kings authority over the Church. highlights including a provocative discussion of the tension between the sovereignty of different communities and an exploration of the roots of authority.

[Sam Eccleston]

Rightly considered the foundation of a distinctly Anglican theological approach, what you see in these pages is not just that, but also a portrait of a man of supreme good sense, sound judgement, and a rare capacity for patient, one might even say dogged, exploration of an issue or set of interrelated issues which eschews the easy, and often false, dichotomies of common parlance and reaches instead for the kernel of the matter; finding it otherwise than has been popularly imagined.

[Aaron Michael]

“…laws apparently good, are (as it were) things copied out of the very tables of that high everlasting law, even as the book of that law hath said concerning itself, By me Kings reign, and by me Princes decree justice.”

[Joey Ellis]

Lots went over my head but the stuff that didn’t was really good!

[Rochelle]

See especially "Of the Certainty and Perpetuity" (A learned and comfortable sermon of the certainty and perpetuity of faith in the elect: especially of the prophet Habakkuk's faith)

[Simon]

Massive. Hard to read. Books I and VIII were the best, but I am working on his political thought. The bits in between were fine, although his defence of episcopacy was tedious.