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  • Richard Hooker, Eternal Law and the Human Exercise of Authority

  • Esther D. Reed
  • Journal:
    Journal of Anglican Studies / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / December 2006
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 219-238

  • Richard Hooker's theology of law was rarely far from pragmatic concerns. He wanted to promote a peaceful and prosperous human community before God while holding that moral right consists in conformity to the divine will. In this paper, we tread a narrow path between Hooker as ‘villain’ because of his role in preparing for the modern separation of ethics from metaphysics and as ‘unqualified hero’ whose ethically substantive and teleological theology of law took inspiration from Holy Scripture and the angels' worship of God. The claim is that Hooker's theology of law still provides a fertile environment in which to think practically today about questions such as: What is the nature of divine authority? What is law for? What should characterize the human exercise of authority?