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  • Radicalism: When Reform Becomes Revolution: The Preface to Hooker's Laws: A Modernization

  • Hooker's Laws in Modern English, Volume 1
  • By: Richard Hooker
  • Narrated by: Alastair Roberts
  • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

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Radicalism: When Reform Becomes Revolution: The Preface to Hooker's Laws: A Modernization

By: Richard Hooker
Narrated by: Alastair Roberts
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Summary

Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is one of the great landmarks of Protestant theological literature, and indeed of English literature generally, but is scarcely read today on account of its difficult and archaic style. The time has come to translate it into modern English so that Hooker may teach a new generation of churchmen and Christian leaders about law, reason, Scripture, church, and politics. In this initial offering of a multi-year translation project by the Davenant Trust, we present a short and accessible sample of Richard Hooker’s profound insight and rhetorical genius, in the form of his Preface to the work. This wide-ranging discourse on the psychology of religious and political radicalism, and the need to balance the demands of conscience with legal order, is much more than a mere preface, with startlingly relevant insights for the church and the task of Christian citizenship today.

This fully revised second edition contains a much-expanded introduction to the life of Richard Hooker, and a comprehensive revision of the translation for greater clarity and accuracy.

©2017 The Davenant Institute (P)2019 The Davenant Institute
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