The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker

by Richard Hooker

We turn to Richard Hooker to understand the intellectual background of the Renaissance. He sets forth in his writing the ethical, political, and religious assumptions of his age. This magnificent old-spelling edition of Hooker's works has long been needed, and is being greeted with universal admiration.

Volume Four presents the text of the first and only major attack on the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity--namely, A Christian Letter,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674632168
• ISBN13: 9780674632165
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"