Volume 24, Number 19 · November 24, 1977
The Good & Great Works of Richard Hooker
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity laws, a volume of sermons and tractates, and a volume of contemporary commentary on the laws—will be published in 1978)
Preface and Books I-V by Richard Hooker. The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, edited by W. Speed Hill
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Vol.II, 624 pp., $60.00 the set (three more volumes in this edition—the balance of the
At first sight, it seems odd that Richard Hooker should be celebrated, and his works published, in America. Hooker is a very English figure, the Doctor Angelicus of the Church of England—that established Church which, from the first publication, in 1593, of his great work, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, turned back the tide of Puritanism and sent its irreducible opponents to find a refuge,
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