A Companion to Richard Hooker

W.J. Torrance Kirby, DPhil in Modern History, Oxford University, is Professor of Church History at McGill University. He has published on various aspects of Reformation thought. His most recent books are The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology (2007) and Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist (2005). He previously edited another collection of essays on Hooker titled Richard Hooker and the English Reformation (2003).

Richard Hooker was a learned philosophical theologian and engaged polemicist of the later sixteenth century who explained and defended the Elizabethan religious and political settlement, and shaped definitively the self-understanding of the English ecclesiastical establishment for centuries to come. This Companion to Richard Hooker brings together a representative body of contributors with a view to offering a summary of the current state of scholarly debate and a synthesis of emerging trends in criticism. Contributions to this volume reflect the major current trends of scholarly opinion on Hookera (TM)s place within the mainstream of Protestant reform. This Companion aims to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to Richard Hookera (TM)s life, works, thought, reputation, and influence. Contributors are: Rudolph P. Almasy, Daniel Eppley, Lee W. Gibbs, Egil Grislis, William Harrison, W. Speed Hill, Ranall Ingalls, Dean Kernan, Torrance Kirby, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A. S. McGrade, W. David Neelands, W. Brown Patterson, Debora K. Shuger, Corneliu C. SimuA, John K. Stafford, Paul Stanwood, James F. Turrell, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams.

Foreword, Rowan Williams Introduction, W. J. Torrance Kirby I. Life of Hooker, Lee W. Gibbs II. Works and Editions I, P. G. Stanwood III. Works and Editions II, W. Speed Hill IV. Classical, Patristic, and Medieval Sources, A. S. McGrade V. Elizabethan Theological Polemics, W. Brown Patterson VI. Rhetoric and Apologetics, Rudolph P. Almasy VII. Sin and Grace, Ranall Ingalls VIII. Predestination, W. David Neelands IX. Faith and Assurance, Debora K. Shuger X. Reason and Law, W. J. Torrance Kirby XI. Scriptural Hermeneutics, Egil Grislis XII. The Church, William H. Harrison XIII. Uniformity and Common Prayer, James F. Turrell XIV. Christology and the Sacraments, W. David Neelands XV. Orders of Ministry, Corneliu C. Simut XVI. Episcopacy, A. S. McGrade XVII. Royal Supremacy, Daniel Eppley XVIII. Practical Divinity, John K. Stafford XIX. Reputation and Reception, Diarmaid MacCulloch Select Bibliography, Egil Grislis and John K. Stafford Index of Subjects and Names Index of Hooker's Works