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The Richard Hooker Society is hosting a two-day Zoom symposium this fall on Saturday, September19th, and Saturday, November 21st, 2026 on the theme of our forthcoming publication Richard Hooker Amongst the Reformers (under contract with Brill). There is no cost to attend this event. If you would like to attend please email fr.daniel.graves@gmail.com for the Zoom link. What relationship did Richard Hooker have to his fellow sixteenth century religious reformers? Recent scholar

Here are a few of the recent review of Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues By Nigel Voak, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 76.4 (2025) By Rudy Almasy, Anglican and Episcopal History 94.1 (2025) By Martin Ohst, Theologische Literaturzeitung 2025.11 (2025) https://www.thlz.com/artikel/26501/?inhalt=heft%3D2025_11%23r28 By David Alenskis Alenskis, D. B. (2026). Book Review: Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues by Graves Daniel F., and Scott N. Kindred-Barnes, Scott. Pr

In his undated Tract on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper , the “ever-memorable” John Hales [1584-1656], fellow of Eton, proposed the curious and idiosyncratic view that Holy Communion might be celebrated without the words of consecration. Since the patristic period, sacramental validity had required both “matter” and “form” (form being the words used in the ritual). Was Hales’s suggestion merely an intellectual exercise, or was he truly promoting such a heterodox theologic

On June 9, (Whitsunday) 1549, the first English Prayer Book came into official use throughout the kingdom of Edward VI. Less than two weeks prior (May 29, 30, and June 1), the Florentine reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli, who had come to England at the invitation to Archbishop Cranmer to serve as the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, participated in Disputation on the Holy Eucharist at that same university. Beginning on June 10, the day following the formal introduction o

Revisionist historians such as C.J. Sisson and David Novarr have dismissed Izaak Walton’s story of the destruction of Richard Hooker’s manuscripts as pure invention. This paper re-evaluates Walton’s evidence, the hearsay chancery suit witness of the Staple Inn lawyer, Edmund Parbo, and the relationship of members of Hooker’s family to the list of possible culprits. The paper concludes that it is very likely that Hooker’s manuscripts were vandalized and that this act of vand