| Richard Hooker: The Architecture of Participation Contributor(s): Dominiak, Paul Anthony (Author), Kilby, Karen (Editor), Higton, Mike (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0567698920 ISBN-13: 9780567698926 Publisher: T&T Clark OUR PRICE: $42.52 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Christology - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.74 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Richard Hooker's Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity has long been acknowledged as an influential philosophical, theological and literary text. While scholars have commonly noted the presence of participatory language in selected passages of Hooker's Laws, Paul Anthony Dominiak is the first to trace how participation lends a sense of system and coherency across the whole work. Dominiak analyses how Hooker uses an architectural framework of 'participation in God' to build a cohesive vision of the Elizabethan Church as the most fitting way to reconcile and lead English believers to the shared participation of God. First exploring Hooker's metaphysical architecture of participation in his accounts of law and the sacraments, Dominiak then traces how this architecture structures cognitive participation in God, as well as Hooker's political vision of the Church and Commonwealth. The volume culminates with a summary of how Hooker provides a salutary resource for modern ecumenical dialogue and contemporary political retrievals of participation. |