A Colloquium: The Virtuous Richard Hooker

30 Brimmer Street,Boston MA 02108

04 November, 2022

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The Virtuous Richard Hooker:Prophetic Virtue and the ”Sundrie Waies” of Anglican Wisdom:A Colloquium on the unique achievements of Richard Hooker (1554-1600) as a systematic theologian, philosopher and author of The Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity.Hooker’s most famous work, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, has been described as “probably the first great work of philosophy and theology to be written in English,” and it was of immense influence in shaping later Anglican theology in all its distinctiveness and unique relationship to the Book of Common Prayer. General outline of events:— ::: Nov. 4, 2022, Friday ::: — 06:00 p.m.: Solemn Evensong & Reception — ::: Nov. 5, 2022, Saturday ::: — 08:30 a.m.: Morning Prayer 09:00 a.m.: Low Mass 09:30 a.m.: Check-in opens 10:00 a.m.: Colloquium sessions with a break for lunch 05:30 p.m.: Evening Prayer Banquet (separate ticket required; coat & tie) The Colloquium Banquet (a separate ticket, coat & tie) will be held after the Evening Prayer and will recall that the 5th of November is “Guy Fawkes Night” — the date of his infamous “Gunpowder Plot” to blow up the British Parliament in 1605. “Remember, Remember the 5th of November!” Speakers:Professor Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and sometime Director of the Centre for Research on Religion at McGill University, Montreal, where he has been a member of the Faculty of Religious Studies since 1997. He is also Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and McCord Fellow of the Princeton Centre of Theological Inquiry. He holds BA and MA degrees in Classics (Greek Philosophy and Literature) Dalhousie, King's College, and was a Commonwealth Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford University where he received a DPhil degree. He is the author of many publications including Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist; The Theology of Richard Hooker in the Context of the Magisterial Reformation; Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions: Scriptural Hermeneutics and Epistemology; Mediating Religious Cultures in Early Modern Europe. The Rev'd Dr Daniel Graves is the Editor of the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society and author of Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues (with co-editor Scott Kindred-Barnes) and Richard Hooker: His Life, Work, and Legacy, and “Iure Divino: Four Views on the Authority of the Episcopacy in Richard Hooker” in Anglican and Episcopal History, 2012, 47-60, and "The Rhetorical Coherence of Hooker’s Preface to the Lawes,” in the Reformation and Renaissance Review, April 2014, 9-23. Fr. Graves also serves in Trinity Anglican Church, Aurora, ON (Diocese of Toronto) as Associate Priest for Christian Education and Faith Formation. Dr Drew Nathaniel Keane is the Assistant Registrar of Ralston College, Savannah and Lecturer in Early Modern Studies. He was previously Senior Lecturer in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA. He first studied literature and Bible at Johnson University in Knoxville and then took an MA in English at Georgia Southern University, writing a thesis on Alexander Pope's commentary on the Iliad. He took his Doctorate from the University of St. Andrews, writing a thesis on "The Use of The Book of Common Prayer (1549-1604) in an Oral-Aural Culture". With Samuel L. Bray (University of Notre Dame), he edited the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition (IVP Academic, March 2021). Also with Professor Bray, he is presently writing, How to Use the Prayer Book (forthcoming from IVP), a guide for new users unfamiliar with the Anglican tradition, he is also working on a Prayer Book Commentary. From 2012 to 2018 he served on the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of the Episcopal Church. Andrew Fulford, (McGill University) received his MA in Theology from the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, where his research focused on contemporary theological approaches to the interpretation of the Bible. His current research interests are in the relationship between the Anglican theologian Richard Hooker and the Reformed tradition on the doctrine of scripture and the use of reason in religion and religious disputes, on which he has also published. Nicholas Westberg is a Doctoral Student in Philosophy at Boston College, and is currently finishing his dissertation on the metaphysics of René Descartes. His research focuses on metaphysical and epistemological issues in late scholastic theology and early modern philosophy.