Rudolph P. Almasy

Reading the Bible with Richard Hooker

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Daniel Eppley's imminently readable study lucidly brings together the past and the present: the past which reflects the challenges of Reformation biblical interpretation and the present which participates in a pluralistic and fragmented culture in search of peace. Eppley convincingly argues that the sixteenth-century theologian and churchman Richard Hooker speaks to our contemporary world as it strives for hermeneutical certainty, a balance between private and public rationality, and the important hope for community. All of this, Eppley argues, reflects Hooker's own efforts over four hundred years ago. The past, as Hooker struggled with his own anxieties over what he took to be radicalized religion, can indeed speak to the tensions and desires of an equally radicalized today.”