Richard Hooker; Isaac Walton; John Keble - The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With an Account of His Life and Death

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1874. Leather. A collection of works by the sixteenth century theologian, Richard Hooker, with a short biography on his life by Isaac Walton, bound in full blind stamped calf. The sixth edition. A three volume, complete set. Two folding plates to 'Volume I&apos. Collated, complete. Bound in full calf, with gilt Cambridge University crests to the front boards.Richard Hooker was an English priest in the Church of England, regarded as one of the most important English theologians of the sixteenth century. He is credited as offering a defence to the notion of redeemed reason, which informed throughout the seventeenth century a theological method based upon a combination of revelation, reason and tradition. This collection of Hooker's work, includes some of his most well-known writings, with much of it being taken up by his Magnum Opus 'Of The Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie&apos. 'Ecclesiastical Politie' has been categorised as perhaps the greatest work of philosophy and theology to be written in English. Bound in full calf, with gilt 'Cambridge University crests' to the front boards. Externally, spines faded, with loss to the spine label to 'Vol II' and 'II', marks to the boards and spines and rubbing to the extremities and joints. Bookplate remnants to front pastedown of 'Vol I&apos. Internally, firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with spotting to the blanks only. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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