Companion to Richard Hooker

W.J. Torrance Kirby, DPhil in Modern History, Oxford University, is Professor of Church History at McGill University. He has published on various aspects of Reformation thought. His most recent books are The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology (2007) and Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist (2005). He previously edited another collection of essays on Hooker titled Richard Hooker and the English Reformation (2003).

"A finely accomplished project, a considerable editorial achievement, and a useful addition to Hooker studies. Libraries that cover sixteenth-century English theology, literature and politics will need to invest in this book. Teachers as well as students of Hooker will want to have it to hand." – Paul Avis, University of Exeter, in: Ecclesiology 8/3 (2012), pp. 416- 420"This Companion is an excellent introduction to a complex and often verbose theologian, and in places it is clearer on Hooker's thought than he was himself". – Bryan Spinks, Yale University, in: Church History and Religious Culture 90/2-3 (2010)“Hooker, sein Werk und dessen Wirkungsgeschichte werden mit ansteckender Liebe zum Detail in ihre ursprünglichen geschichtlichen Bezüge eingeordnet“. – Martin Ohst, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, in: Sehepunkte, 10/3 (2010)

• Foreword, Rowan WilliamsIntroduction, W. J. Torrance Kirby I. Life of Hooker, Lee W. GibbsII. Works and Editions I, P. G. StanwoodIII. Works and Editions II, W. Speed HillIV. Classical, Patristic, and Medieval Sources, A. S. McGradeV. Elizabethan Theological Polemics, W. Brown PattersonVI. Rhetoric and Apologetics, Rudolph P. Almasy VII. Sin and Grace, Ranall IngallsVIII. Predestination, W. David Neelands IX. Faith and Assurance, Debora K. ShugerX. Reason and Law, W. J. Torrance KirbyXI. Scriptural Hermeneutics, Egil Grislis XII. The Church, William H. Harrison XIII. Uniformity and Common Prayer, James F. Turrell XIV. Christology and the Sacraments, W. David NeelandsXV. Orders of Ministry, Corneliu C. SimuţXVI. Episcopacy, A. S. McGrade XVII. Royal Supremacy, Daniel EppleyXVIII. Practical Divinity, John K. Stafford XIX. Reputation and Reception, Diarmaid MacCullochSelect Bibliography, Egil Grislis and John K. Stafford Index of Subjects and NamesIndex of Hooker’s Works