The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker
by Richard Hooker
The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: in Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker | |
Title page from The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
Author | Richard Hooker |
Editor | John Gauden, with some corrections by John Strype |
Published | London: Printed for John Walthoe, George Conyers, James Knapton, Robert Knoplock, J. and B. Sprint . . . [and 9 others] |
Date | 1723 |
Language | English |
Pages | [4], lxxxviii, 518 [i.e. 520], [8] |
Desc. | Folio (40 cm.) |
The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity was Hooker’s response not only to a rift within Protestantism—between Hooker’s Anglicanism and English Puritans agitating for a reform of church government toward the Calvinist model,[7] characterized by an exclusive fidelity to scripture[8]—but also to what he saw as the Catholic Church’s theological error of elevating "tradition" to the same importance as scripture.[9] Hooker articulated a three-fold theory of ecclesiastical government that emphasized deference to scripture, followed by church tradition, and where those were inadequate, answers were to be sought in human reason.[10]
Unsurprisingly, given this final modification, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity has been lauded as the Enlightenment’s "...first glimmering...dawn,"[11] and profoundly influential upon “...(both directly and through Locke), American political philosophy in the late 1700’s."[12]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Hooker’s Ecclesiastical polity. fol. and given by Thomas Jefferson to his son-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph. We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. George Wythe's Library[13] on LibraryThing indicates this without naming a specific edition. The Brown Bibliography[14] lists the 1723 edition from London based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.[15] The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the London 1723 edition.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Bound in contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, newly rebacked. Signed "F.H. Thornton, Oct. 1912" on the front free endpaper and includes the bookplate of Edward Thornton on the front pastedown. Purchased from Cobnar Books.
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References
- ↑ A. S. McGrade “Hooker, Richard (1554–1600),” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 3, 2013.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Online, s. v. "Richard Hooker," accessed October 3, 2013.
- ↑ A. S. McGrade, "Hooker, Richard (1554–1600".
- ↑ James E. Kiefer, "Biographical Sketches of Memorable Christians of the Past: Richard Hooker, Doctor of the Church," Society of Archbishop Justus, accessed October 3, 2013.
- ↑ A. S. McGrade, "Hooker, Richard (1554–1600".
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Kiefer, "Biographical Sketches of Memorable Christians of the Past: Richard Hooker, Doctor of the Church."
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Online, s. v. "Richard Hooker."
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ A. S. McGrade, "Hooker, Richard (1554–1600".
- ↑ Kiefer, "Biographical Sketches of Memorable Christians of the Past: Richard Hooker, Doctor of the Church."
- ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 13, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, ""Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 3:14-15. [no.2334]
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