422. The World’s Law: Richard Hooker

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Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law.

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Further Reading

• W. Speed Hill (ed.), The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, 7 vols (Binghamton NY: 1977-98). The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity are found in vols 1-3.

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• P.A. Dominiak, Richard Hooker: the Architecture of Participation (London: 2020).

• R.K. Faulkner, Richard Hooker and the Politics of a Christian England (Berkeley: 1981).

• S.P. Kennedy, “Richard Hooker as Political Naturalist,” The Historical Journal 62 (2019), 331-48.

• W.J.T. Kirby, Richard Hooker’s Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy (Leiden: 1990).

• W.J.T. Kirby (ed.), Richard Hooker and the English Reformation (Dordrecht: 2003).

• W.J.T. Kirby, Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist (Aldershot: 2005). 

• W.J.T. Kirby (ed.), A Companion to Richard Hooker (Leiden: 2008). 

• W.B. Littlejohn, The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology (Grand Rapids: 2017).

• P. Munz, The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought (London: 1952).

• A. Russell, Richard Hooker, Beyond Certainty (Abingdon: 2017). 

• N. Voak, Richard Hooker and Reformed Theology (Oxford: 2003).

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