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Justifying faith and faith as a virtue in the theology of Richard Hooker
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Like many of his contemporaries among the magisterial reformers, both in England and on the continent, Richard Hooker’s moral theology is inseparable from his theology of grace. Justifying grace is for Hooker the source of the theological virtues, without which there can be no attainment to moral fulfilment – beatitude. The chief theological concern of the Reformation is the formulation of the principles of soteriology, and it is within the frame of this task that discussion of the virtues is undertaken by the reformers. While Hooker emphatically embraces ‘virtue ethics’ he none the less does so in a manner comparable to other magisterial reformers, and consistently with Article XII of the Articles of Religion (1563/71). This chapter will attempt to distinguish between ‘justifying faith’ and ‘faith as a theological virtue’ in the thought of Richard Hooker with a view to demonstrating his adherence to the Reformed mainstream.

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