Description: (Theologian)
Richard Hooker was an English priest in the Church of England and a highly influential theologian during the sixteenth century. He defended the role of redeemed reason, which later influenced the theology of the seventeenth-century Caroline Divines. Hooker's theological method combined revelation, reason, and tradition, providing a framework for many members of the Church of England. Scholars have debated Hooker's relationship with Anglicanism and the Reformed tradition, with some viewing him as the originator of the Anglican via media and others arguing for his alignment with mainstream Reformed theology.