Richard Hooker and the Vision of God: Exploring the Origins of 'Anglicanism'

Finally filling the gap between specialist volumes and ‘companion texts’, Charles Miller's rigorous and well written exploration of the works and theology of Richard Hooker is a comprehensive and critical testament to one of the most important founders of Anglican thought.
Miller introduces the main theological topics in Hooker’s writings and identifies his distinctive contribution to the emergence of Anglicanism via discussion of such themes as Hooker’s conception of God, of Mankind and of the place of Scripture in the Church. These discussions are deeply founded on Hooker's own works and Miller makes good use of the yet un-translated work 'L’Anglicanisme de Richard Hooker' by Olivier Loyer, which has not been frequently cited in English language scholarship until now.
'Richard Hooker and the Vision of God' is a groundbreaking new text that serves as both an introduction to, and substantive analysis of, this hugely influential sixteenth-century theologian.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:

Part 1
Introduction
Chapter 1 ‘That Glorious Beam of the English Church’
Chapter 2 ‘The Weight of this Requireth Largenesse’
Part 2
Chapter 3 ‘That Light which None Can Approach Unto’
Chapter 4 ‘The Noblest Creature in the World’
Chapter 5 ‘A Way Mystical and Supernatural’
Chapter 6 ‘Light, Life and Love Eternal’
Chapter 7 ‘Generative Force and Virtue’
Part 3
Chapter 8 - ‘The Sovereign Observance of God’s Grace’
Chapter 9 ‘Powerful Instruments of God’
Part 4
Chapter 10 ‘A Holy Rule of Doing Well’
Chapter 11 ‘The Science of Things Divine’
Chapter 12 ‘Our Good: Our Sovereign Good’
Chapter 13 ‘Our Desire to Behold God’
Part 5
Chapter 14 ‘That Visible Mystical Body’
Chapter 15 ‘The Public Ministry of Holy Things’: Christian Ministry.
Chapter 16 ‘The Laws by which We Live’: Political Theology.
Conclusion