Logic and Flesh: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Social Body
| dc.contributor.author | Simpson, Lucas | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Kuchar, Gary | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-17T23:55:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-17T23:55:13Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2022 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-08-17 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of English | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis argues that the scope of Richard Hooker’s critique in his Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie extends beyond its ostensive target of Elizabethan presbyterianism to what he saw as a more general dissolution of a framework of human self-understanding rooted in Christian metaphysics and sacramental polity. The foundation of Hooker’s revision of the conformist case, I argue, is not a critique of presbyterianism or Calvinism themselves but of their 14th-century nominalist roots. Whereas recent scholarship has focused on the extent of Hooker’s consistency with the magisterial reformers, I aim to situate Hooker within the broader intellectual developments, beyond merely doctrinal-confessional concerns, that would come to characterize modern thought. Such a broadened approach offers valuable insight into the competing tensions in the intellectual climate of nascent modernity and, more importantly, situates Hooker within the context of the epoch-level stakes that, as I argue, he himself envisioned for his project. I develop this line of interpretation with two case studies—the first on Hooker’s critique of newly developing reforms in logic, the second on his sacramentology. In both cases, Hooker adopts a position whose metaphysical-theological foundations are an explicit departure from the Calvinist-derived consensus framework of the Admonition Controversy. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14096 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Richard Hooker | en_US |
| dc.subject | Elizabethan | en_US |
| dc.subject | sacraments | en_US |
| dc.subject | politics | en_US |
| dc.subject | liturgy | en_US |
| dc.title | Logic and Flesh: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Social Body | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |