Richard Hooker
1554–1600
Theologian and philosopher. Professor of Hebrew, Oxford University, 1579. Master of the Temple, 1585–91. Author of a large work on the laws of ecclesiastical polity, which brought together theology, philosophy, and political thought for the first time in England, and dealt with the issues between conformists and nonconformists, and Rome and the Church of England.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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