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Richard Hooker is the first major voice of Anglican theology, and
his defense of the Elizabethan Church against the attacks of the
Puritans set the prevailing tone of Anglicanism for centuries to
follow. Through his eloquent treatise on ecclesiastical law the
medieval political thought of Thomas Aquinas became a part of the
English political heritage, to be used by such writers as Locke,
Burke, and Coleridge. The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is also a
primary statement in English of a theory of natural law. Finally,
we must turn to Hooker if we are to understand the intellectual
background of the Renaissance, for he luminously sets forth the
ethical, political, and religious assumptions of his age. The
Folger Library has answered a long-felt need in sponsoring this
critical, old-spelling edition of Hooker's Works, prepared with all
the expertise modern scholarship can bring to bear. Six scholars
share the editorial responsibility, consulting their
eighteen-member Board of Advisers as necessary. The texts for the
edition are based on fresh transcriptions of the earliest and most
authoritative documents, in many cases manuscripts written or
corrected by Hooker himself or contemporary transcripts of these.
The critical apparatus for each text records substantive variants
among the authoritative documents as well as departures in
accidentals from the copy text. The aim of the apparatus is to
enable the interested reader to reconstruct the authority
underlying the text. The Preface and Books I-V of the Laws of
Ecclesiastical Polity, volumes one and two of this edition,
represent all of Hooker's work published in his lifetime. These
volumes were prepared by Georges Edelen, Professor of English at
Indiana University, and W. Speed Hill, Associate Professor of
English, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York.
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