Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

This five-part series focused on Richard Hooker’s theological masterpiece, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.  The course was taught by Fr. Patrick Cheng, our Theologian in Residence.

Richard Hooker, a sixteenth century priest in the Church of England, is widely acknowledged as the founder of the Anglican theological tradition and one of the great Anglican theologians.  In this series, we have explored Hooker’s life as well as the preface and eight books of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.