Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker (born March 1554 in Heavitree (since 1913 part of Exeter ), County Devon , † November 3, 1600 in Bishopbourne ) was an English, Anglican theologian . Together with Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker, he is considered to be the co-founder of Anglican theology . In his second Treatise of Civil Government , John Locke quotes Hooker several times. His patronage feast as a saint in the calendars of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church of the United States of America is November 3rd.

Live and act

Hooker studied at Corpus Christi College , Oxford , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1574 and a Master of Arts degree in 1577 . He was accepted as a member of the college in 1579, but then embarked on a church career. In 1581 he was appointed preacher at Paul's Cross in London and in that year he married Jean Churchman, the daughter of his landlady. In 1591 he moved to Boscombe , 1595 to Bishopbourne.

Hooker was critical of the Puritans . In 1585 he published his Learned Discourse of Justification and from 1594 his most famous work Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity .

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Hooker, Richard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1045-1047.
Paul Schütz : Richard Hooker. The basic theologian of Anglicanism. A monograph on the history of the Reformation and the beginnings of the Enlightenment , Theol. Dissertation, (Halle) 1922, as microfilm Göttingen 1952.
Philip B. Secor: The Sermons of Richard Hooker , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 2001; ISBN 978-0-2810-5414-5
W. Bradford Littlejohn: Richard Hooker: A Companion to His Life and Work , Cascade Companions 2015, ISBN 978-1-625-64735-1
W. Bradford Littlejohn et al. a .: Richard Hooker and Reformed Orthodoxy , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-647-55207-1

Individual evidence

^ Izaac Walton: The Life of Mr Rich. Hooker. In Walton's Lives . Published by George Saintsbury and reprinted in the Oxford World's Classics series , 1927.

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personal data
SURNAME	Hooker, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Anglican theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1554
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heavitree ( Exeter )
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1600
Place of death	Bishopbourne

[iw-1] Izaac Walton: The Life of Mr Rich. Hooker. In Walton's Lives . Published by George Saintsbury and reprinted in the Oxford World's Classics series , 1927.