Richard Hooker and the English Reformation

I. The Orders of Grace and Nature.- The Priority of God’s Gracious Action in Richard Hooker’s Hermeneutic.- Powers of Nature and Influences of Grace in Hooker’s Lawes.- Grace and Hierarchy: Richard Hooker’s Two Platonisms.- II. Providence and Predestination.- Richard Hooker and the Debates about Predestination, 1580–1600.- Richard Hooker on the Un-conditionality of Predestination.- Providence, Predestination, and Free Will in Richard Hooker’s Theology.- III. The Church and Common Prayer.- Richard Hooker on the Identity of the Visible and the Invisible Church.- Angels descending and ascending: Hooker’s discourse on the ‘double motion’ of Common Prayer.- Sorrow and Solace: Richard Hooker’s Remedy for Grief.- IV. Grace and the Sacraments.- Presence and Absence: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Hermeneutic.- ‘Participation of God Himselfe:’ Law, the mediation of Christ, and sacramental participation in the thought of Richard Hooker.- Grace, Sin, and Nature: Richard Hooker’s Theology of Baptism.- Reflections on Richard Hooker’s understanding of the Eucharist.- V. Polemics of Reform.- Language and Exclusion in the First Book of Hooker’s Politie.- Book VI of Hooker’s Lawes Revisited: the Calvin Connection.- Book VI and the ‘Tractate on Penance:’ do they belong together?.- Richard Hooker and Christopher St. German: Biblical Hermeneutics and Princely Power.- Richard Hooker: A Selected Bibliography: Egil Grislis with the assistance of John K. Stafford.- Index of Subjects and Names.- Index of Hooker’s Works.