Tractates and Sermons: 5 (Folger Library of the Works of Richard Hooker): Volume V (The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker) - Hardcover

Hooker, Richard; Yeandle, Laetitia; Grislis, Egil; Hill, W. Speed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674632176 ISBN 13: 9780674632172

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Although Richard Hooker (1554–1600) is now known principally as the author of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in his lifetime the Tractates and Sermons brought him greater notoriety. Hooker’s views on justification, the perseverance of faith, and the relationship of the Church of Rome to the reformed Church of England were widely reported, and texts of the tracts were extensively circulated in manuscript.

Thanks to the meticulous editing of Laetitia Yeandle, Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the contemporary impact of these debates can now be appreciated for the first time. These tracts provide a unique perspective on the turbulent world of late Elizabethan theology. In addition, they lay the doctrinal foundations of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity itself and―with the excellent commentary of Egil Grislis, Professor of Theology at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, enable us to trace the intellectual formation of sixteenth-century England’s most innovative and provocative theologian.

The volume includes a newly discovered letter; three newly attributed sermon fragments; and analysis by P. F. Forte of Hooker’s distinctive preaching style.

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About the Authors

Laetitia Yeandle is Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Egil Grislis is Professor of Theology at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

W. Speed Hill was Associate Professor of English at Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674632176
• ISBN 13: 9780674632172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 972