Richard Hooker: The Architecture of Participation. By Paul Anthony Dominiak
Scholars have long agreed that Richard Hooker employed the idea of participation in his Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The exact nature of that participation, however, has remained obscure. Dominiak’s work addresses this ambiguity by arguing that ‘the architecture of participation’ provides the prop...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 1034 |
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| Summary: | Scholars have long agreed that Richard Hooker employed the idea of participation in his Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The exact nature of that participation, however, has remained obscure. Dominiak’s work addresses this ambiguity by arguing that ‘the architecture of participation’ provides the proper hermeneutic for rightly interpreting Hooker’s Laws. It begins by giving an overview of participation in current scholarship. Eastern notions of deification are carefully distinguished from Western ideas of participation. Hooker’s theology is said to reflect the ‘theme’ of theōsis rather than the Palamite ‘doctrine’ with its essence-energy distinction (pp. 6-8). In this, Hooker’s theology resembles others in the Western tradition who utilize ‘the biblical themes of adoption, participation, and union’ (p. 7). Although there are two references to it in Book 1 of the Laws (p. 19), participation is predominately a soteriological theme for Hooker who uses the sexual imagery of ‘copulation’ to describe union with Christ (pp. 20, 68-71, 144, 157). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab116 |