The Word Made Flesh for Us

The Word Made Flesh for Us

Title: The Word Made Flesh for Us
Author: Richard Hooker, Brad Littlejohn & Patrick Timmis
Release: 2024-04-25
Kind: ebook
Genre: Religion & Spirituality, Books, Christianity
Size: 2559629
In this fifth volume of a multi-year translation project by the Davenant Institute, we present key sections from Book V of Hooker's Laws, in which Hooker thoroughly yet succinctly lays out the Reformed yet catholic perspective on both Christology and the sacraments. Long regarded as both the theological and rhetorical high point of the Laws, these chapters provide a survey of the church's historic teaching on the person of Christ and our union with him, as well as an irenic defense of Reformed distinctives over against the Catholic, Lutheran, and anti-sacramental alternatives.

Yet this is no dry theological tract: Hooker's descriptions of Christ, baptism, and especially the eucharist are among the most stirring passages penned during the English Reformation. Book V of the Laws is as valuable today as it was when first written for the edification of the church, the sharpening of the mind, and the enrichment of the soul.