Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues

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Contents
Notes on Contributors
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Introduction: Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues
	1 The Virtues: A Brief Overview
		1.1 Plato
		1.2 Aristotle
		1.3 Cicero and the Roman Virtues
	2 The Virtues in Christianity
	3 Hooker on the Virtues
		3.1 The Theological Virtues in Lawes 1.11
		3.2 Obedience as a Virtue? Lawes Book II.2
		3.3 The ‘Moral’ Virtues in Lawes Book III.1
		3.4 The Virtues in Book V of the Lawes
		3.5 Lawes Book VI/Tract on Repentance – Is Repentance a Virtue?
	4 The Origins of the This Volume
	5 Scholarly Contributions Included in This Volume
Chapter 1 Law and Reason in Richard Hooker’s Invention of Anglicanism
	1 Introduction
	Bibliography
Chapter 2 Virtue Valued and Rewarded in Richard Hooker
	1 Hooker on the Virtues (and Vices)
		1.1 The Cardinal Virtues
		1.2 The Theological Virtues
	2 Criticism in a Christian Letter and Hooker’s Response
	Bibliography
Chapter 3 Justifying Faith and Faith as a Virtue in the Theology of Richard Hooker
	Bibliography
Chapter 4 A Via Media Ecclesiology?: Hooker, Calvin, and the Pursuit of Moderation
	1 Let Love Be Our Guide: Calvin on the Law-Making Power of the Church
	2 They Overmuch Abridge Her Power: Hooker on the Law-Making Power of the Church
	3 Calvin and Hooker as Via Media Ecclesiologists
	Bibliography
Chapter 5 The Work of Virtue Requires Outside Help
	1 A Theology from Below: A Comprehensive Humanist Account of Value and Virtue
	2 Tracking the Corelations
	3 The Dynamic Character of the Correlations
	4 The Suspicion of Atheism
	5 Glorification Is beyond the Merely Human: It Involves Theosis
	6 Using a Scholastic Account of Grace Yet Steering Clear of a Scholastic Wrong Turn
	7 The True Path to Glory—Participation of Christ
	8 Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 6 Hooker’s Hermeneutic of Humility in the Lawes
	1 Introduction
	2 Pride in the Preface to the Lawes
	3 Error in the Preface to the Lawes
	4 Hermeneutical Humility
	5 Assertive Hermeneutical Humility
	6 Assertive Hermeneutical Humility for All
	7 Cordelia and Her Sisters
	Bibliography
Chapter 7 ‘Repentance as a Virtue’: Richard Hooker’s Use of Peter Lombard in His Doctrine of Repentance
	1 Lombard’s Doctrine of Contrition
	2 Hooker’s Appropriation of Lombard’s Doctrine of Contrition
	3 Hooker’s Use of Lombard to Critique the Roman Sacrament of Penance
	4 Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 8 Joseph and His Brothers: Conversion, Clementia, and Reconciliation in Hooker’s Lawes
	1 Introduction
	2 Clementia in Ancient and Medieval Tradition through the Tudor Period
	3 Joseph and His Brothers as a Biblical Model of Clemency
		3.1 Joseph and His Brothers as a Biblical Model of Clemency
	4 Hooker’s Use of the Story of Joseph as an Example of the Virtue of Clemency
	5 Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 9 From Vices to Virtues: John Rainolds’ Influence on Richard Hooker
	1 Introduction
	2 John Rainolds’ Humanist Approach to Rhetoric
	3 Hooker and Rainolds as Aristotelian Humanists
	4 Some Possible Connections
	Bibliography
Chapter 10 Richard Hooker: The Informal Moral Theologian
	1 Introduction
	2 Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues
	3 Richard Hooker’s Assessment of Puritan Piety
	4 Hooker’s Sermon on Pride
	5 The Sermons on Jude
	6 Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 11 Hooker and the Foundations of Virtue Theory
	1 Introduction
	2 Virtue Ethicisist and the Relation between Virtue and Law
		2.1 Initial Statement of Virtue Ethicists against Law Conception of Ethics
		2.2 How Ethics Can Be Done without Law
		2.3 The Origin and Demise of Our Concept of Law
	3 Hooker on the Concept of Law
	4 The Place of Virtue in Hooker’s Moral Theory
		4.1 Teleology and Eudaimonia in Hooker’s Lawes
		4.2 Teleology as Grounds for Law in Hooker’s Lawes
	5 Conclusion: Law and Virtue
	Bibliography
Chapter 12 ‘Shall These Fruitless Jars and Janglings Never Cease?’: Richard Hooker’s Critique of Curiosity
	1 Introduction
	2 The Vice of Curiosity
	3 Hooker’s Critique of Curiosity
	4 The Solution: Seeking Knowledge in Patience and Humility
	Bibliography
Chapter 13 ‘The Law of a Commonweale’: Richard Hooker on Civil Society, Civic Virtue, and Religion
	1 Introduction
	2 ‘Very Soule of a Politique Body’: Disambiguating Civil Society and Civic Virtue
	3 ‘Most Abundant Vertue’: The Poltics of Participation
	4 The Roote of All Virtues’: Virtue Ecclesiology
	5 Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 14 A Virtuous Hooker?: Richard Hooker as a Moral Exemplar in Walton’s Life
	1 Introduction
	2 Moral Exemplarity and Early Modern Life-Writing
	3 What Does Virtue Look Like in Walton’s Life of Hooker?
		3.1 Hooker at the Temple
		3.2 Hooker’s Unhappy Marriage
		3.3 Hooker’s Blackmail
		3.4 The Virtue of Holy Friendship
		3.5 Biblical and Hagiographical Exemplars
		3.6 Holy Dying
	4 Conclusion
	Bibliography
General Index
Biblical References
References to Hooker’s Works
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