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For more than forty years now there has been a steady stream of interest in Richard Hooker. This renaissance in Hooker Studies began with the publication of the Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker. With this renaissance has come a growing recognition that it is anachronistic to classify Hooker simply as an Anglican thinker, but as yet, no generally agreed-upon alternative label, or context for his thought, has replaced this older conception; in particular, the question of Hooker's Reformed identity remains hotly contested. Given the relatively limited engagement of Hooker scholarship with other branches of Reformation and early modern scholarship to date, there is a growing recognition that Hooker must be evaluated not only against the context of English puritanism and conformism but also in light of his broad international Reformed context. At the same time, it has become clear that, if this is so, scholars of continental Reformed orthodoxy must take stock of Hooker's work as one of the landmark theological achievements of the era.This volume aims to facilitate this long-needed conversation, bringing together a wide range of scholars to consider Richard Hooker's theology within the full context of late 16th- and early 17th-century Reformed orthodoxy, both in England and on the Continent. The essays seek to bring Hooker into conversation not merely with contemporaries familiar to Hooker scholarship, such as William Perkins, but also with such contemporaries as Jerome Zanchi and Franciscus Junius, predecessors such as Heinrich Bullinger, and successors such as John Davenant, John Owen, and Hugo Grotius. In considering how these successors of Hooker identified themselves in relation to his theology, these essays will also shed light on how Hooker was perceived within 17th-century Reformed circles. The theological topics touched on in the course of these essays include such central issues as the doctrine of Scripture, predestination, Christology, soteriology, the sacraments, and law. It is hoped that these essays will continue to stimulate further research on these important questions among a wide community of scholars.
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Herman J. Selderhuis, geb. 1961, hat Evangelische Theologie in Apeldoorn, Niederlande (1987-97) studiert. Er war als Gemeindepfarrer tätig. 1994 hat er mit dem Thema 'Huwelijk en echtscheiding bij Martin Bucer' (engl. Edition: 'Marriage and Divorce in the thought of Martin Bucer', 1999) promoviert.
Emidio Campi, Dr. theol., Jahrgang 1943, ist Professor für Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte von der Reformationszeit bis zur Gegenwart und Leiter des Instituts für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte an der Universität Zürich.
Dr. phil. habil. theol. Irene Dingel, Jg. 1956, ist Direktorin des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte (Abteilung für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte) und Professorin für Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, sowie Ordentliches Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz. Irene Dingel ist v.a. mit zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen zur Konfessionsbildung und Konfessionalisierung in der Frühen Neuzeit hervorgetreten.
