Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist

This book explores key aspects of Richard Hooker''s philosophical and theological discourse in the context of currents of thought prevalent in the ''Magisterial Reformation'' of the sixteenth century. Hooker''s treatment of natural law, his dependence upon the philosophical discourse and traditional cosmology of Christian Neoplatonism, and his appeal to the authority of patristic sources, are all ...