Richard Hooker’s theology of Law is rooted in a twofold argument: the systematic appropriation of the neoplatonic structure of argument and an appeal to protestant conceptions of Nature and Grace. This paper offers a close reading of Hooker’s Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie in an attempt to understand the articulation between Natural and Eternal Laws.

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• Kirby, W. J., (2025), "The Neoplatonic Logic of Richard Hooker's Generic Division of Law", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Kirby, W. J. Torrance. "The Neoplatonic Logic of Richard Hooker's Generic Division of Law." Renaissance and Reformation 34 (4): 2010. 49-67. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v34i4.10801. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.