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Richard Hooker on Anglican Faith and Worship: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Book V is unavailable, but you can change that!

Richard Hooker (1554-1600) is the premier theologian of the Anglican religious tradition. Portions of his great apologia for Anglicanism, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity—still required reading in most Anglican seminaries—has been seminal for most Anglican theologians since the early seventeenth century. Unfortunately, Hooker’s defining ideas about the Church, the sacraments, Holy Scripture,...

(Four General Propositions Demanding That Which May Reasonably Be Granted Concerning Matters of Outward Form in the Exercise of True Religion) It is usual for mathematicians—and necessary for us in this issue now before us—to first lay down certain propositions that will serve as general principles for what will follow. Those whom we labour to persuade agree that it is necessary to proceed in this manner. They propose that, with certain exceptions,
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