The next instalment in the Anglican Centre’s ongoing autumn seminar programme will be held on Friday, 3 October, when Professor Torrance Kirby of McGill University, Montreal, will deliver this year’s Tillard Chair Lecture, entitled ‘Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism’, at 5:00pm in Aula 11 of the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (the ‘Angelicum’), with which the Anglican Centre is co-organising the event.

The introduction will be given by The Rt Revd Anthony Ball, Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See, while The Revd Hyacinthe Destivelle, OP, Director of the Angelicum’s Institute for Ecumenical Studies, will serve as moderator.

Entrance is free. Those associated with the Anglican Centre who wish to participate, whether in-person or online, should let us know by writing to info@anglicancentre.it.

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Richard Hooker (1554–1600) was an Anglican priest, master of English prose and legal philosophy, and one of the most influential English theologians of the sixteenth century. In his magnum opus, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, he defended the Church of England against both Roman Catholicism and Puritanism and affirmed the Anglican tradition as that of a ‘threefold cord not quickly broken’—scripture, tradition and reason. His defence of the role of redeemed reason informed the theology of the seventeenth-century Caroline Divines and considerably influenced many political philosophers, including John Locke. To this day, Hooker’s work is regarded as a fundamental articulation of the Anglican tradition’s theological method.

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