The Richard Hooker Society is hosting a two-day Zoom symposium this fall on Saturday, September19th, and Saturday, November 21st, 2026 on Richard Hooker Amongst the Reformers. There is no cost to attend this event. If you would like to attend please email fr.daniel.graves@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
What relationship did Richard Hooker have to his fellow sixteenth century religious reformers? Recent scholarship has underscored that the sixteenth religious reforms of the English church happened in conversation with the Reformation on the Continent, and that while the English Reformation was unique in some respects, it cannot be viewed in isolation. More specifically, over the past several years, scholars of Richard Hooker have explored the relationship between Richard Hooker and a variety of Protestant reformers, both in England and on the Continent.
This project seeks to build on these existing bodies of work by situating and re-situating Hooker amongst the broad spectrum of theologians of the Protestant Reformation. Our goal is to bring together papers that not only trace the influence of particular reformers on Hooker’s thought but also explore how, as a second-generation reformer, he is in conversation with, adapts, critiques, and distinguishes himself from them. This symposium includes papers on Hooker’s relationship with and response to the various trajectories of the Reformation in England and on the Continent, including Reformed, Lutheran, radical, and even Counter-Reformation traditions.
Conference Schedule
September 19
Panel 1: Richard Hooker and the Continental Reformation (10 am – 12 pm EDT)
- Andreas Stegmann (Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies/Humboldt University), The vernacularization of theological discourse in 16th century Germany and England
- Ranall Ingalls (University of King’s College), Drenched with deity’: Luther, Dionysius, and Richard Hooker’s Universe
- Jon Cleland (Heritage College and Seminary), Richard Hooker, Regeneration, and the Ordo Salutis in Sixteenth-Century Context
Panel 2: Richard Hooker and the Early English Reformation (2 pm – 4 pm EDT)
- Drew Keane (George Southern University), The Liturgical Projects of Cranmer and Hooker
- Andre Gazal (Montana Bible College), ‘A Mystical and Visible Society That is Dispersed’: Richard Hooker’s Use of John Jewel’s Doctrine of the Universal Church
- David Neelands (Trinity College, University of Toronto), The Single Wall of Doctrine that Divides the Reformed Church of England from Rome
November 21
Panel 3: Hooker Reaching Across Divides? Doctrine of the Word, Ecclesiology, Mariology (10 am – 12 pm EST)
- Ashley Null (Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies), The Power of the Spoken Word in the English Reformation: Cranmer and Hooker Compared
- John Stafford (St. John’s College, University of Manitoba), Richard Hooker: A Generous Defender of Reform
- Philip Hobday (Wakefield Cathedral), Richard Hooker and the Virgin Mary
Panel 4: Hooker on/and His Fellow Reformers (2 pm – 4 pm EST)
- Scott Kindred-Barnes (Port Williams United Baptist Church), Re-reading the “Radical Reformation” with Richard Hooker
- Dan Graves (Huron University College), Richard Hooker and Antonio del Corro
- Ben Crosby (McGill University), ‘As dead flies putrifie the oyntment of the Apoticarie’: Hooker on Luther, Calvin, and Intra-Protestant Division