Richard Hooker
Mere Fidelity
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Hooker's Theology - The Church of England and the Reformation
The church of england was a hybrid between protestantism and roman catholicism. It retained bishops, it retained some of the traditional liturgy,. A lot of these tings are now coming back and are commonly practised by a number of protestant churches. But before hooker's time, there had been a puritan movement that felt this wasn't good enough. Hooker tries to give a more full fledged account of why there is actually much to be appreciated in the structure and liturgies of the english church. And he also wants to deal with the question of how do you honour the authority of god's word, authority of god, and yet honor the human
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