Hooker, Richard | John E. Booty (essay date 1979)
John E. Booty (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: Booty, John E. “Richard Hooker.” In The Spirit of Anglicanism: Hooker, Maurice, Temple, edited by William J. Wolf, pp. 1-45. Wilton, Conn.: Morehouse-Barlow Co., Inc., 1979.
[In the following essay, Booty considers the influences on Hooker's writing career and the critical reaction to his works.]
Richard Hooker's importance for our day is suggested not so much by the work of modern Anglican theologians as by that of others who have contributed to a growing number of Hooker studies. Scholars of various nationalities, including a French Roman Catholic and a Swedish Lutheran, and various disciplines, including philosophers, historians and professors of English literature, have given years of their lives to study and write about Hooker and his thought.1 Furthermore, a new, critical edition of his Works—sponsored by the prestigious Folger Shakespeare Library and financed by the...
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