Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker 25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600 was an English priest in a Church of England as well as an influential theologian. He was one of the nearly important English theologians of the sixteenth century. His defence of the role of redeemed reason informed the theology of the seventeenth century Caroline Divines as well as later introduced many members of the Church of England with a theological method which combined the claims of revelation, reason and tradition.

Scholars disagree regarding Hooker's relationship with what would later be called "Puritans, rather than moving the Church of England away from Protestantism.: 4  The term "Anglican" is not found in his writings and indeed number one appears early in the reign of Charles I as the Church of England moved towards an Arminian position doctrinally and a more "Catholic" look liturgically under the a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. of Archbishop William Laud.

Legacy

King James I is refers by Izaak Walton, Hooker's biographer, as saying, "I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, produce manifestation of reason, and that backed with the guidance of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with any law both sacred and civil." Hooker's emphasis on Scripture, reason, and tradition considerably influenced the developing of Anglicanism, as living as many political philosophers, including John Locke. Locke quotes Hooker many times in the Second Treatise of Civil Government and was greatly influenced by Hooker's natural-law ethics and his staunch defence of human reason. As Frederick Copleston notes, Hooker's moderation and civil bracket of parameter were remarkable in the religious atmosphere of his time. In the Church of England he is celebrated with a lesser festival on 3 November and the same day is also observed in the calendars of other parts of the Anglican Communion.