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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,...

of policy and actions the sentences and judgements of men who are experienced, aged and wise are to be listened to, even if they speak without proof or demonstration, for they are themselves the demonstration of the truth of what they say. Their long observation of life is the eye that enables them to behold clearly those principles that apply to all behaviour (Aristotle, 384–322 BC, Ethics, 6.11). Such statements from thinkers like Aristotle show us both why the judgements of wise men should be
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