Description: Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker : An Examination of Responses, 1, Hardcover by Brydon, Michael, ISBN 0199204810, ISBN-13 9780199204816, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Richard Hooker has long been viewed as the first systematic defender of Anglicanism, as a via media between Roman Catholicism and Reformed Protestantism. In the last twenty years this traditional assumption has been increasingly challenged, however, and it has been argued that Hooker was a Reformed figure whose Anglican credentials are the invention of the Oxford Movement. Whilst the theological ambiguity of Hooker remains perplexing, it is clear that the seventeenth century, not the nineteenth, was responsible for the creation of his reputation as a leading Anglican father. Michael Brydon examines how, during a period of both religious and political consolidation, Hooker became both an authoritative figure and an Anglican emblem. He demonstrates how Reformed suspicions of Hooker, combined with a Catholic desire to exploit his perceived sympathies, helped secure his status as a distinctive English writer. This led to his subsequent adoption by the avant-garde churchmen and his enthronement at the Restoration, through Isaac Walton's biography, as the epitome of the Anglican identity. Unsurprisingly, the unfolding of contemporary crises led to some reappraisal of his standing. The Glorious Revolution meant that Hooker's previously unpalatable belief in an original political compact now came to the forefront and his vision of a national Church was replaced with an established one. Nevertheless, whilst the boundaries of Anglican comprehensiveness have expanded and contracted in response to particular situations, the belief that Hooker was the unparalleled guardian of the English Church has remained remarkably constant ever since.
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Book Title: Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker : An Examination of Respons
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker : an Examination of Responses, 1600-1714
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Christian Theology / Systematic, Christianity / Anglican
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion
Author: Michael Brydon
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Hardcover
