{"id":148500,"date":"2026-11-03T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148500"},"modified":"2026-11-03T05:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:04:55","slug":"richard-hooker-on-richard-hookers-feast-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148500","title":{"rendered":"Richard Hooker on Richard Hooker\u2019s Feast Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I am besides my purpose when I fall to bewail the cold affection which we bear towards that whereby we should be saved, my purpose being only to set down what the ground of salvation is. The doctrine of the Gospel proposeth salvation as the end, and doth it not teach the way of attaining thereunto? Yes, the damsel possessed with a spirit of divination spake the truth: \u201cThese men are the servants of the most high God who show unto us the way of salvation\u201d [Acts 16:17] \u2014 \u201ca new and living way which Christ hath prepared for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,\u201d [Heb 10:20]&nbsp;<strong>salvation purchased by the death of Christ<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013Learned Discourse on Justification (my emphasis)<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2nd November 1600 \u2013 Death of Richard Hooker &#x1f3f4;&#xe0067;&#xe0062;&#xe0065;&#xe006e;&#xe0067;&#xe007f;\n\nOn this day in 1600, Richard Hooker, one of England&#8217;s most influential Anglican theologians, died in Kent, aged 46.\n\nBorn in Devon in 1554, Hooker defended the Protestant Church of England, the authority of Scripture, the Book of Common Prayer and historic Christian traditions.\n\nHis writings helped establish the foundations of traditional Anglicanism, defending the Church against radical Puritan demands to abandon longstanding practice &#x1f3f4;&#xe0067;&#xe0062;&#xe0065;&#xe006e;&#xe0067;&#xe007f;<\/p>&mdash; The English Remnant (@Englishremnant) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Englishremnant\/status\/2117386710703304832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I am besides my purpose when I fall to bewail the cold affection which we bear towards that whereby we should be saved, my purpose being only to set down what the ground of salvation is. The doctrine of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148500\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,186,324,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christology","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-soteriology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148502,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148500\/revisions\/148502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}