By W J, Professor Torrance Kirby
ISBN-10: 0754652882
ISBN-13: 9780754652885
ISBN-10: 1138262927
ISBN-13: 9781138262928
This publication explores key facets of Richard Hooker's philosophical and theological discourse within the context of currents of suggestion frequent within the 'Magisterial Reformation' of the 16th century. Hooker's remedy of average legislations, his dependence upon the philosophical discourse and standard cosmology of Christian Neoplatonism, and his attract the authority of patristic assets, are all heavily examined.
Challenging the got 'exceptionalist' version of a lot of the twentieth-century interpretation of Hooker, particularly the concept that of his intended defence of the English Reformation as impressive a 'via media' among Rome and mainstream Protestant reform, W.J. Torrance Kirby argues that Hooker adheres to ideas of 'magisterial' reform whereas development upon the assumptions of a distinctively Protestant model of Platonism.
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