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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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In Defense of Reformed Catholic Worship – Book IV of Hooker’s Laws: A Modernization
Must Protestants reject every hint of continuity with Rome? Or can we be reformed and catholic at the same time? Writing in the 1590s but with startling relevance even today, Richard Hooker argues for an approach to our catholic liturgical heritage that helps Protestants sort through what Protestant worship can and should look like.
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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 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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The Word Made Flesh for us
Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is one of the great landmarks of Protestant theological literature, and indeed of English literature generally, but is scarcely read today on account of its difficult and archaic style. The time has come to translate it into modern English.
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A House for the Word
A Treatise on Public Worship from the fifth book of Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
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