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Alongstanding debate has continued among scholars concerning Richard Hooker’s understanding of salvation, especially as it concerns the relationship between Hooker’s Thomism and his Protestant stand on justification. The debate has engaged such eminent scholars as Lee Gibbs, Gunnar Hillerdal, Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, W. David Neelands, Bryan Spinks, P. G. Stanwood and many others.1 I do not intend to mediate this dispute, particularly as my research has not been in this area.
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Lee Gibbs, “Richard Hooker’s Via Media Doctrine of Justification,” Harvard Theological Review 74:2 (1981); Gunnar Hillerdal, Reason and Revelation in Richard Hooker, Lunds Universitets Arsskrift, n.s.I, 54.7 (Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1962); Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, Faith and Works: Cranmer and Hooker on Justification (Wilton: Morehouse-Barlow, 1982); William David Neelands, “The Theology of Grace of Richard Hooker,” (PhD thesis, Trinity College, Toronto, 1988); Bryan D. Spinks, Two Faces of Elizabethan Anglican Theology: Sacraments and Salvation in the Thought of William Perkins and Richard Hooker (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999); P. G. Stanwood, “Of Prelacy and Polity in Milton and Hooker,” in Heirs of Fame: Milton and Writers of the English Renaissance, ed. Margo Swiss and David A. Kent ( Lewisburg: Bucknell University, 1995 ), 78–79.
Lawes V.56.10; 2:241.18–23
Our participation in God is “partlie by imputation, as when those thinges which he did and suffered for us are imputed unto us for righteousness” and “partlie by habituall and reali infusion, as when grace is inwardly bestowed while wee are on earth and afterwardes more fullie both our soules and bodies made like unto his in glorie.” V.56.11; 2:243.4–9
Lawes I.11.6; 1:119.12
Lawes I.11.6; 1:118.26, 30. Italicizing indicates quotation from John 6:29.
Lawes I.11.6; 1:118.28
Lawes I.14.1; 1:124.31
Lawes I.11.6; 1:118.15
Lawes L11.1; 1:111
Lawes L11.1; 1:223.9–14. Italicizing indicates refernces to Romans.
Hooker takes his definition of positive law from Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae Ia IIae q.91 art.3, declaring that human positive laws are “particular determinations” of the natural law, “found out according unto the reason of man ” Lawes III.9.2; 1:236.25–37.5
Lawes III.8.6; 1:223.16
Lawes III.8.9; 1:223.3
Lawes I11.8.9; 1:226.4
Lawes 11I.8.9; 1:226.24
Lawes III.1.2; 1:194
Lawes I1I.1.14; 1:206.27–29
Lawes I.10.5; 1:100.16–19
Lawes III.3.2; 1:210.11
Lawes 1II.4.1; 1:213.5
Lawes V.6.1; 2:32.29–33.4
Lawes V.7.1; 2:34.24–27
Lawes V.8.1–2; 2:38.1ff.
Lawes V.9.1; 2:41.10
Lawes VII.18.5; 3:257.3–5
Lawes III.10.1; 1:239.32–40.2
Lawes III.10.7; 1:244.10–14
Lawes III.11.6; 1:250.32.
Lawes 111.11.7; 1:251–53
Robert Vincent Kavanaugh, “Reason and Nature in Hooker’s Polity,” ( PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1944 ), 101
W M. Southgate, John Jewel and the Problem of Doctrinal Authority, Harvard Historical Monographs 49 ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1962 ), 138
Reason is useful as an aid to understanding the revelation which is given in Scripture. This is an important point in the Lawes and is developed in a number of places. See, for example, Lawes I.14.1; 1:126. 11L6.1; 1:215–16. I11.7.4; 1: 218–19.
Lawes I11.8.18; 1:235.2–5
Italics are Hooker’s. Lawes I1I.8.18; 1:235.16–19
Lawes V.1.1; 2:16.1
Lawes V.1.2; 2:17.6–10
Lawes V.1.2; 2:17.22. See also V.Ded.9; 2:6.23–32.
Lawes V.1.2; 2:18.12
Lawes V.1.2; 2:17.23
Lawes V.56.1; 2:234.29
Lawes V.57.2; 2:245.21–24
Lawes V.57.3; 2:245–46
Lawes V.60.2; 2:255.9–13
Lawes V.66.4; 2:323.28
Lawes V.67.1; 2:330
John E. Booty, “Richard Hooker,” in The Spirit of Anglicanism: Hooker, Maurice, Temple, ed. William J. Wolf (Harrisburg: Morehouse-Barlow, 1979 ), 17
William O. Gregg, “Sacramental Theology in Hooker’s Lawes: A Structural Perspective,” Anglican Theological Review 73.2 (Spring, 1991 ), 155
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Harrison, W.H. (2003). Powers of Nature and Influences of Grace in Hooker’s Lawes. In: Kirby, W.J.T. (eds) Richard Hooker and the English Reformation. Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0319-2_2
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