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Richard Hooker: A Companion to His Life and Work is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although by common consent the greatest theologian of the Anglican tradition, Richard Hooker is little known in Protestant circles more generally, and increasingly neglected within the Anglican Communion. Although scholarship on Hooker has witnessed a dramatic renaissance within the last generation, thus far this has tended to make Hooker less, not more accessible to general audiences, and...

deny. Hooker, then, and many later English Reformed theologians, insisted that it was wrong to speak of a “limited redemption,” in which Christ only died for some, even if in practice the benefits of the atonement did not take effect for all.18 If Hooker was, in fact, of a similar view to later moderate Calvinists like John Davenant or James Ussher, then he falls well within the Reformed consensus—indeed, some would argue closer to the earliest Reformed19—although certainly not within the form (so-called
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