Abstract

A key aspect of Richard Hooker‟s doctrine of salvation is the epistemology of faith or his understanding of faith as means of knowledge, which is discussed primarily in his A Learned and Comfortable Sermon of the Certaintie and Perpetuitie of Faith in the Elect. The sermon was published in 1612, but it seems to have been delivered in 1585, when Hooker began his theological controversy with Walter Travers. The text of the sermon, Habakkuk 1:4 , proved to be the source of inspiration for other sermons, known under the name of A Learned Discourse of Justification, Workes, and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown. This particular sermon is of great importance because some of its theological themes are resumed by Hooker in other works, such as for instance Answer to Travers‟ Supplication and in the larger A Learned Discourse of Justification