Richard Hooker, etching by Wenceslaus Hollar (17th century). Source · Public domain
About Richard Hooker
Richard Hooker (c. 1554–1600) was an English priest and theologian, born at Heavitree near Exeter and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, with the help of Bishop John Jewel. In 1585 he was appointed Master of the Temple in London, where his morning sermons were answered in the afternoon by the Puritan lecturer Walter Travers. He later held country livings at Boscombe in Wiltshire and from 1595 at Bishopsbourne in Kent, where he died in 1600. The Laws, published in instalments from 1593, is his major work; Izaak Walton's Life of Hooker (1665) shaped his later reputation.
1594 · Renaissance Early Modern · Political Theory
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is Richard Hooker's defence of the order of the Church of England as settled under Elizabeth I, written against the Puritan party that wished to replace government by bishops with the presbyterian discipline practised at Geneva. The library text contains the Preface and Book I, the opening portion of a work in eight books; the Everyman printing it comes from also includes editorial footnotes, a few of which remain in this OCR text, while that printing's modern introduction is omitted.
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