This study traces the way in which a typical Elizabethan Reformed Protestant became something slightly different during a ministerial career prematurely terminated by death in his forties, and what he became in the centuries that followed. It explains the background of divided theologies in the national Church of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, the emergence of ‘avant-garde conformism’, and the way in which Hooker was used by opposing sides to justify their positions, particularly after the Restoration of 1660, when the term ‘Anglicanism’ first becomes fully appropriate for the life and thought of the Church of England. As the Church moved from national monopoly to established status, Hooker became of use in different ways to both Tories and Whigs, though in the nineteenth century the Oxford Movement largely monopolised his memory. His views on the construction of authority may still help Anglicanism find its theological way forward.

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理查德胡克：发明与再发明

这项研究追溯了一位典型的伊丽莎白时代改革宗新教徒在他四十多岁因去世而提前终止的传道生涯中变得稍有不同的方式，以及他在随后的几个世纪中变成的样子。它解释了英国伊丽莎白一世和雅各宾派国家教会中分裂神学的背景、“前卫顺从主义”的出现，以及反对派利用胡克为自己的立场辩护的方式，特别是在 1660 年复辟之后，当“英国国教”一词第一次完全适合英格兰教会的生活和思想时。随着教会从国家垄断转变为既定地位，胡克以不同的方式对托利党和辉格党都有用，尽管在 19 世纪牛津运动在很大程度上垄断了他的记忆。