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Richard Hooker and the Vision of God: Exploring the Origins of 'Anglicanism'

Richard Hooker and the Vision of God: Exploring the Origins of 'Anglicanism'

Paperback

General Christianity

ISBN10: 0227174003
ISBN13: 9780227174005
Publisher: James Clarke Co
Published: Jul 25 2013
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A valuable study of the writings of the leading Elizabethan divine, reinterpreting his contribution to the development of Christian thought and ecclesiology.

Charles Miller's rigorous and sensitive examination of Richard Hooker's theology makes a valuable addition to the field of study of the cleric, one of the founding theologians of modern Anglicanism.

Miller examines Hooker's works in detail, leading the reader through different facets of his vision of God: creation, Scripture, the sacraments, and practices of Christian devotion. Hooker's theology challenges an increasingly time-bound, relativistic approach to doctrine and truth; his sources were as wide, as ancient, and as modern as Hooker could make them. Miller's thoughtful analysis is informed throughout by an understanding of the context of Hooker's theological development against the backdrop of continental Calvinism and the remnants of

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