The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ´Hooker,´ it might almost be said, is the name of a book rather than the name of a man; for there are few great writers since the Middle Ages of whom we know less. The story of Richard Hooker´s life is soon told. He was born in 1554 in Exeter of burgess stock, his grandfather having been mayor. His uncle John Hooker had been an editor of Holinshed´s Chronicles. The family was Protestant and also poor; but Richard showed promise at the local grammar-school and his uncle secured for him the patronage of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, who got the boy into Corpus Christi College, Oxford, at the age of fourteen, first as a chorister and later as a clerk. At nineteen he became a scholar and at twenty-three a fellow of the college. His academic career was not outstanding but he acquired enough fame to become deputy Professor of Hebrew for a few days, and to be asked to preach at Paul´s Cross in London in 1581, just after he had taken orders. In 1588 he married Joan Churchman, daughter of a future Master of the Merchant Taylors Company. Modern research has disposed of Izaak Walton´s story that the Churchman family was in low financial water; but there may be truth in Walton´s statement that Hooker was a henpecked husband - it would not be inconsistent with his known humility of character. Before his marriage Hooker became Rector of Drayton Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire, in 1584 and, a year later, Master of the Temple. He was appointed over the head of the well-known Puritan Walter Travers, who, however, stayed on as a lecturer. The Master and the Lecturer were soon engaged in a public theological controversy for, in spite of a Puritanical background in his home and in his college, Hooker had already formed strongly Anglican views. The controversy, although it gave him personal pain, brought him into the limelight and attracted the interest both of Archbishop Whitgift and of Burghley. They soon saw in Hooker the champion for whom the Established Church was looking. In 1591 he ceased to be Master of the Temple and became Rector of Boscombe, Wiltshire, although almost certainly he continued to live in London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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