Richard Hooker and the Construction of Christian Community

Table of contents

• Richard Hooker and the Construction of Christian Community i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vi
• Abbreviations and Acronyms ix
• Foreword xi
• The Edition and the Man 1
• Richard Hooker in the Folger Edition: An Editorial Perspective 3
• In Search of Richard Hooker: Constructing a New Biography 21
• Sources and Techniques 39
• Hooker in the Context of European Cultural History 41
• From Erasmus to Hooker: An Overview 59
• Hooker on Scripture, Reason, and [Tradition] 75
• Public and Private Rhetoric in Hooker's Lawes 95
• Situation and Aims 147
• Hooker and the Elizabethan Establishment 149
• They Are and Are Not Elymas: the 1641 [Causes] Notes as Postscript to Richard Hooker's of the Lawes of Eccksiasticall Politie 183
• Richard Hooker: Counter-Reformation Political Thinker 203
• Richard Hooker as An Apologist of the Magisterial Reformation in England 219
• Confidence, Authority, and the Construction of Christian Community 235
• The Assurance of Faith According to Richard Hooker 237
• Hooker on the Authority of Scripture in Matters of Morality 251
• Richard Hooker and Lancelot Andrewes on Priestly Absolution 261
• Performing Prayer in Hooker's Lawes: the Efficacy of Set Forms 275
• Hooker on Ecumenical Relations: Conciliarism in the English Reformation 283
• Interpreting the Interpreter 305
• [Societie Supernaturall]: the Imagined Community of Hooker's Lawes 307
• [For Conformities Sake]: How Richard Hooker Used Fuzzy Logic and Legal Rhetoric against Political Extremes 331
• Eric Voegelin's Two Portraits of Hooker and Their Relation to the Modern Crisis 351
• Hooker: Philosopher, Anglican, Contemporary 369
• Richard Hooker: a Selected Bibliography, 1971–1993 385
• Index of Passages in Hooker's Work Cited or Discussed 406
• Subject Index 413

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