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The Neoplatonic Logic of Richard Hooker's Generic Division of Law

Author(s) -

W.J. Torrance Kirby

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

renaissance and reformation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2293-7374

pISSN - 0034-429X

DOI - 10.33137/rr.v34i4.10801

Subject(s) - philosophy , argument (complex analysis) , appropriation , articulation (sociology) , appeal , natural law , reading (process) , protestantism , epistemology , law , theology , political science , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , politics

Richard Hooker's theology of Law is rooted in a twofold argument: the systematic appropriation of the neoplatonic structure of argument and an appeal to protestant conceptions of Nature and Grace. This paper offers a close reading of Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie in an attempt to understand the articulation between Natural and Eternal Laws.

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