By Barry G. Rasmussen (auth.), W. J. Torrance Kirby (eds.)

P. G. STANWOOD OOKER, it could possibly virtually be stated, is the identify of a publication instead of H the identify of a man," wrote Christopher Morris in his creation to the Everyman's Library version of the 1st 5 books of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie. Now virtually a hundred years later, we all know even more either concerning the publication and the guy. Of Hooker himself, C. J. Sisson's 1 sensible Marriage of Mr. Hooker (1940) spread out and clarified many information of the existence. His biographical study has been accelerated in a few methods, in particular throughout the cautious scrutiny and reassembling of Izaak Walton's early "official" existence (1666) by way of David Novarr within the Making of Walton's "Lives" (1958), and such a lot lately by means of Jessica Martin in her interesting learn of Walton's Lives: Conformist Commemorations and the increase of Biography (2001). Georges Edelen left his biography of Hooker unfinished on the time of his dying, yet a lot of his deep studying and scholarship is displayed in his distinct chronology of Hooker's existence prefixed to the statement volumes of the Folger Library version of the Works of Richard Hooker, and likewise in his editorial paintings at the Preface and Books I­ N of the Lawes in that version. moreover, Philip Secor has lately released Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism (1999), a full of life and interesting portrait aimed toward a normal audience.

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There is the question of Hooker's relation to the motif of Anglicanism. While some scholars have held up Hooker as the pioneer and model of the via media,40 others have questioned this interpretation as tending to anachronism. 30. For Hooker "mystical! " 40 See, for example, William P. Haugaard's introduction to Hooker's Preface to the Lawes where he describes Elizabeth's reign as a "Crucible for an Emerging Anglicanism," FLE 6(1): 2-22. C. Porter, "Hooker, the Tudor Constitution, and the Via Media," also in SRH, 77-116.

J. Brill, 1990), 30-58. 19 This emphasis is revealed, for example, in the title of his famous soteriological sermon first published posthumously in 1611 in an edition by Henry Jackson. For Just. see FLE 5:105-169. 22 Christ alone (solus Christus) as God and man stands at once both lower than the angels in his human nature and remains above them in the form of God. "23 For Augustine a true mediator by logical necessity must be "of both natures," both blessed and mortal. This Christologically centred account of mediation between the soul and God has been termed the principle of "Augustinian immediacy" by way of contrast with the alternative ontology implied by the mediating function of the Dionysian hierarchies.

18. See Booty's discussion of 'The Concept of Participation" in FLE 6(1):197-199. 32 At lnst. 1, Calvin speaks of the "insitio in Chris tum" as the indispensable condition for the reception of the grace that Christ's redemption has gained on our behalf. See Wendel, Calvin: the Origins and Development of his Religious Thought, translated by Philip Mairet (London: Harper and Row, 1963), 234-242. 33 Wendel, Calvin, 215-32; see Calvin, lnst. 1. Hooker, like Calvin, placed considerable emphasis on traditional Christological doctrine as defined by the four Ecumenical Councils of the ancient Church.

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