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Radicalism: When Reform Becomes Revolution – The Preface to Hooker’s Laws: A Modernization
Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is one of the great landmarks of Protestant theological literature, and indeed of English literature generally. However, on account of its difficult and archaic style, it is scarcely read today. The time has come to translate it into modern English so that Hooker may teach a new generation of…
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Divine Law and Human Nature – Book I of Hooker’s Laws: A Modernization
Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is one of the great landmarks of Protestant theological literature, and indeed of English literature generally. However, on account of its difficult and archaic style, it is scarcely read today. The time has come to translate it into modern English so that Hooker may teach a new generation of…
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The Word of God and the Words of Man – Books II and III of Hooker’s Laws: A Modernization
Books II-III of Hooker’s Laws, comprising Hooker’s treatment of Scripture’s authority in relation to the authority of reason and human law. Hooker contends that although Scripture does not change, human affairs do, and so our application of Scripture to changing human societies (including the Church) requires the use of reason, prudence, and historical awareness. Scripture…
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James Ussher and a Reformed Episcopal Church: Sermons and Treatises on Ecclesiology
James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, is popularly known as a proponent of young earth creationism due to the insertion of dates from his biblical chronology into many editions of the King James Version of the Bible.
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A Learned Discourse on Justification in Modern English
In this classic treatise, the English theologian Richard Hooker tackles the question of justification by faith alone head-on, seeking to head off two opposite errors: insisting so rigidly on a right articulation of the doctrine that we neglect Christ himself, or minimizing differences over justification as unimportant. In the process, Hooker also offers an excellent…
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The Shining Human Creature
What does it mean for man to live as one restored in Christ? Into this conversation comes Thomas Traherne—clergyman, poet, and mystic—to cast a vision of the “shining human creature,” in a new modernization by Colin Redemer.
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Made Like the Maker
What does it mean to be like God? In a forgotten masterwork, Thomas Traherne brought the depths of Christian philosophy to bear in his answer to this question, now available in a new modernization by Colin Redemer.
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On the Death of Christ
John Davenant’s On the Death of Christ, a classic of English Reformed thought on the atonement, is now available in a new translation by Dr. Michael Lynch.
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A Treatise On Christian Moderation
This lost gem from Joseph Hall provides a compelling argument for moderation, a deeply underappreciated virtue.
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The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in Modern English
Locked away in a rich and beautiful, but labyrinthine and archaic Elizabethan prose style, Hooker’s writings are scarcely read—and for many, scarcely readable—today. This new edition of Hooker’s Laws “translates” his prose into modern English for the first time, without sacrificing any of the theological depth or sparkling wit of the original.
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