📱 eBook en inglés RICHARD HOOKER AND THE VISION OF GOD

Charles Millers rigorous and sensitive examination of Richard Hookers theology makes a valuable addition to the field of study of the cleric, one of the founding theologians of modern Anglicanism. Miller examines Hookers works in detail, leading the reader through different facets of his vision of God: creation, Scripture, the sacraments, and practices of Christian devotion. Hookers theology challenges an increasingly time-bound, relativistic approach to doctrine and truth; his sources were as wide, as ancient, and as modern as Hooker could make them. Millers thoughtful analysis is informed throughout by an understanding of the context of Hookers theological development against the backdrop of continental Calvinism and the remnants of Roman Catholicism in England. The growth of interest in Hooker among specialists has been accompanied by an abandonment of the serious study of Hookers thought among theological students, clergy and theologians. Millers work addresses thislack; Hookers insights must not be forgotten in the daily distribution of theological food to Christian people. A study which attunes readers to Hookers particular theological voice and teaches its value both in his own context and as a present-day interlocutor, this volume will be of great interest to Christians and theological students alike.