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Powers of Nature and Influences of Grace in Hooker’s Lawes

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Richard Hooker and the English Reformation

Part of the book series: Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms ((SERR,volume 2))

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Alongstanding debate has continued among scholars concerning Richard Hooker’s understanding of salvation, especially as it concerns the relationship between Hooker’s Thomism and his Protestant stand on justification. The debate has engaged such eminent scholars as Lee Gibbs, Gunnar Hillerdal, Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, W. David Neelands, Bryan Spinks, P. G. Stanwood and many others.1 I do not intend to mediate this dispute, particularly as my research has not been in this area.

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  2. Lawes V.56.10; 2:241.18–23

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  3. Our participation in God is “partlie by imputation, as when those thinges which he did and suffered for us are imputed unto us for righteousness” and “partlie by habituall and reali infusion, as when grace is inwardly bestowed while wee are on earth and afterwardes more fullie both our soules and bodies made like unto his in glorie.” V.56.11; 2:243.4–9

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Harrison, W.H. (2003). Powers of Nature and Influences of Grace in Hooker’s Lawes. In: Kirby, W.J.T. (eds) Richard Hooker and the English Reformation. Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0319-2_2

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