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Sommario
Acknowledgments
Note on Text
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The Participation of God Himselfe’: Hooker and the Recovery of Participation
Chapter 2: ‘Most Abundant Vertue’: Hooker’s Metaphysical Architecture of Participation
Chapter 3: ‘A Drop of that Unemptiable Fountain of Wisdom’: Cognitive Participation in God
Chapter 4: ‘Politique Societie’: The Politics of Participation
Chapter 5: ‘To Resolve the Conscience’: Revisiting the Architecture of Participation
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Dr Paul Dominiak is Senior Tutor and Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge. He was previously Chaplain to Trinity College Cambridge, Dean and Fellow of Jesus College in the same university, and then Vice Principal of Westcott House, an Anglican theological college in Cambridge.
He has published a number of books including Richard Hooker: The Architecture of Participation (T&T Clark).
Riassunto
Richard Hooker’s Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity has long been acknowledged as an influential philosophical, theological and literary text. While scholars have commonly noted the presence of participatory language in selected passages of Hooker’s Laws, Paul Anthony Dominiak is the first to trace how participation lends a sense of system and coherency across the whole work.
Dominiak analyses how Hooker uses an architectural framework of ‘participation in God’ to build a cohesive vision of the Elizabethan Church as the most fitting way to reconcile and lead English believers to the shared participation of God. First exploring Hooker’s metaphysical architecture of participation in his accounts of law and the sacraments, Dominiak then traces how this architecture structures cognitive participation in God, as well as Hooker’s political vision of the Church and Commonwealth. The volume culminates with a summary of how Hooker provides a salutary resource for modern ecumenical dialogue and contemporary political retrievals of participation.
Prefazione
This book uniquely examines the systematic role of the metaphysics of participation in the thought of Richard Hooker.
Testo aggiuntivo
The study by Dominiak will greatly enhance the experience of reading Hooker’s Laws and, still further, will contribute to the self-understanding of those who lay claim to that tome of Elizabethan divinity.
