Richard Hooker

This classic study is organized as follows:

I. Introduction—Biographers—Editors
II. Early Years—College Days—Pupils
III. Sermon at St. Paul’s Cross—Marriage—Drayton Beauchamp—The Temple—Hooker as a Preacher
IV. The ‘Ecclesiastical Polity’ Begun—Boscombe—Bishopsborne
V. Hooker’s Last Days—His Will—His Epitaph and Monument—Chronology of Hooker’s Life
VI. Hooker’s Treatise ‘Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity’—Its Inception—Its Design—Its Opportunity—Its Style— Whitgift and Hooker
VII. The Contexts of ‘The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity’
VIII. Hooker’s Teaching Concerning:—Holy Scripture—The Holy Eucharist—The Christian Ministry—Confession and Absolution
IX. John Keble’s Preface to Certain Selections From the Fifth Book of Hooker’s ‘Ecclesiastical Polity’