Richard Hooker and the English Reformation

List of Contributors. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Foreword; P.G. Stanwood. Preface; W.J.T. Kirby. I: The Orders Of Grace And Nature. The Priority of God's Gracious Action in Richard Hooker's Hermeneutic; B.G. Rasmussen. Powers of Nature and Influences of Grace in Hooker's 'Lawes'; W.H. Harrison. Grace and Hierarchy: Richard Hooker's Two Platonisms; W.J.T. Kirby. II: Providence And Predestination. Richard Hooker and the Debates about Predestination, 1580-1600; W.D. Neelands. Richard Hooker on the Un-conditionality of Predestination; D. Eppley. Providence, Predestination, and Free Will in Richard Hooker's Theology; E. Grislis. III: The Church And Common Prayer. Richard Hooker on the Identity of the Visible and the Invisible Church; W.D. Neelands. Angels descending and ascending: Hooker's discourse on the 'double motion' of Common Prayer; W.J.T. Kirby. Sorrow and Solace: Richard Hooker's Remedy for Grief; J.K. Stafford. IV: Grace And The Sacraments. Presence and Absence: Richard Hooker's Sacramental Hermeneutic; B.O. Rasmussen. 'Participation of God Himselfe': Law, the mediation of Christ, and sacramental participation in the thought of Richard Hooker; C.W. Irish. Grace, Sin, and Nature: Richard Hooker's Theology of Baptism; J.K. Stafford. Reflections on Richard Hooker's understanding of the Eucharist; E. Grislis. V: Polemics Of Reform. Language and Exclusion in the First Book of Hooker's 'Politie'; R.P. Almasy. Book VI of Hooker's 'Lawes' Revisited: the Calvin Connection; L.W. Gibbs. Book VI and the 'Tractate on Penance' do they belong together? R.P. Almasy. Richard Hooker and Christopher St. German: BiblicalHermeneutics and Princely Power; D. Eppley. Bibliography. Richard Hooker: A Selected Bibliography; E. Grislis with the assistance of J.K. Stafford. Index. Index of Subjects and Names. Index of Hooker's Works.