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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 closely examined. Challenging the received 'exceptionalist'
model of much of the twentieth-century interpretation of Hooker, in
particular the concept of his supposed defence of the English
Reformation as striking a 'via media' between Rome and mainstream
Protestant reform, W.J. Torrance Kirby argues that Hooker adheres
to principles of 'magisterial' reform while building upon the
assumptions of a distinctively Protestant version of Platonism.
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 closely examined. Challenging the received 'exceptionalist'
model of much of the twentieth-century interpretation of Hooker, in
particular the concept of his supposed defence of the English
Reformation as striking a 'via media' between Rome and mainstream
Protestant reform, W.J. Torrance Kirby argues that Hooker adheres
to principles of 'magisterial' reform while building upon the
assumptions of a distinctively Protestant version of Platonism.
Dies ist der zweite Teilband des 3. Bandes der Reformierten
Bekenntnisschriften. Er befasst sich mit der Zeit 1647-1675.
The open-air pulpit in Paul's Churchyard in the City of London,
known as Paul's Cross, is one of the most important vehicles of
popular public persuasion employed by government from the outset of
the Henrician Reformation in the early 1530s until the opening
salvos of the Civil War when the pulpit was demolished. Paul's
Cross became especially prominent as the public face of government
when Thomas Cromwell orchestrated propaganda for the Henrician
reformation in the early 1530s. Here too, after the accession of
Edward VI, Hugh Latimer preached his 'Sermon on the Ploughers', one
of the most celebrated sermons of the English Reformation. While
Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London sat here listening to a sermon in
1553, a riot broke out. In November 1559, John Jewel preached his
celebrated 'Challenge Sermon' here, arguably the most influential
of all sermons delivered at Paul's Cross throughout the Tudor era.
Near the end of Elizabeth's reign William Barlow mounted the pulpit
to pronounce the government's response to the abortive rebellion of
the Earl of Essex. Barlow preached another sermon at Paul's Cross
in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Throughout the early
modern period, Paul's Cross remained continuously at the epicentre
of events which radically transformed England's religious and
political identities. And throughout this transformation, animated
as it was by a popular 'culture of persuasion' which Paul's Cross
itself came to exemplify, the pulpit contributed enormously to the
emergence of a new public arena of discourse. Many of these sermons
preached at Paul's Cross have been lost; yet a considerable number
have survived both in manuscript and in early printed editions.
This edition makes available a selection of Paul's Cross sermons
representative of this rich period in the maturation of England's
popular culture of persuasion.
From Greco-Roman Antiquity through to the European Enlightenment,
philosophy and religious thought were inseparably interwoven. This
was equally the case for the popular natural or 'pagan' religions
of the ancient world as it was for the three pre-eminent 'religions
of the book', namely Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The lengthy
and involved encounter of the Greek philosophical tradition - and
especially of the Platonic, Aristotelian, and Neoplatonic strands
of that tradition - initially with the Hellenistic cults and
subsequently with the three Abrahamic religions, played a critical
role in shaping the basic contours of Western intellectual history
from Plato to Philo of Alexandria, Plotinus, Porphyry, Augustine,
and Proclus; from Aristotle to al-Farabi, Avicenna, al-Gazali,
Aquinas and the medieval scholastics, and eventually to Meister
Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus and such modern philosophers and
theologians as Richard Hooker, the Cambridge Platonists, Jacob
Boehme, and G. W. F. Hegel to name but a few. The aim of the
twenty-four essays comprising this volume is to explore the
intellectual worlds of the three Abrahamic religious traditions,
their respective approaches to scriptural hermeneutics, and their
interaction over many centuries on the common ground of the
inheritance of classical Greek philosophy. The shared goal of the
contributors is to demonstrate the extent to which the three
Abrahamic religions have created similar shared patterns of thought
in dealing with crucial religious concepts such as the divine,
creation, providence, laws both natural and revealed, such problems
as the origin of evil and the possibility of salvation, as well as
defining hermeneutics, that is to say the manner of interpreting
their sacred writings.
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