A Ladder, Not a Stool: A Conversation on Richard Hooker

Rev. Sean Duncan joins us on this episode to discuss the great Elizabethan theologian Richard Hooker.
Sean serves as the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Marshall, TX. He is passionate about Christian education and is enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He believes in staying true to Anglicanism while adapting to the methods of the future. Join Sean and Andrew as they discuss an important and defining era of Anglican history, and why not only every Episcopalian/Anglican but every Christian should read some Richard Hooker.

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The book we reference and encourage you to read that Sean is a co-editor of and that brings Richard Hooker's classic works into modern and accessible English is The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Volume 1 in Modern English from the Davenant Press, 2019. Available for purchase at this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PPB46BJ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

*Also, the mentions of Richard Hooker by Russel Kirk and Gary Dorrien are as follows:

“Hooker’s fundamental aim, to defend the Elizabethan settlement, was deeply conservative, as was his theology… Yet his commitment to the authority of reason and his ecumenical ecclesiology planted the seeds of Anglican Latitudinarianism and Broad Church Liberalism.”- Gary Dorrien from Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology (Wiley Blackwell & Sons, 2012) p. 109

 “In Richard Hooker one discovers profound conservative observations which Burke inherited with his Anglicanism and which Hooker drew in part from the Schoolmen and their authorities…” – Russel Kirk from The Conservative Mind  (Stellar Classics, e-book edition) location 218