Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker ( March 1554 *, † November 3, 1600 ) was an Anglican theologian. He is with Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker as co-founder of Anglican theological thought. In his second Treatise of Civil Government John Locke quotes Hooker several times. His patron's feast as a saint in the Holy calendars of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church of the United States of America is the 3rd of November.

1581 he was appointed as a preacher to Paul 's Cross, and this year went a marriage with Jean Churchman, the daughter of his landlady, a. In 1585 he published his Learned Discourse of Justification and from 1594 his most famous work Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity Of the.