Thomas Hooker (1586-1647), English-born Puritan theologian, was founder and spiritual leader of the Connecticut colony in New England. Thomas Hooker was born in Leicestershire. After receiving a preparatory education, he attended Cambridge University,...

When Thomas Hooker died in Hartford, Connecticut, in the summer of 1647, his congregation and colleagues mourned the loss of an exceptional preacher and pastor. Two prominent members of his congregation called him "one of a thousand, whose diligence...

HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647), was an English and American Puritan minister. Born in Leicestershire, Hooker took his B.A. and M.A. at Cambridge, where he was variously Dixie fellow, catechist, and lecturer in Emmanuel College. As a minister he...

The interim between Calvin’s Geneva and Karl Barth’s cutting indictment of human striving in Epistle to the Romans should be noted. The road to Barth’s salvo runs through the ENLIGHTENMENT, and in particular the practical morality of...

Born at rural Marefield, Leicestershire. After Mr. Hooker's conversion to belief in the authenticity of Scripture and the saving grace of the Christ, his keenly reasoned reflections upon the meanings of Biblical passages and upon the life of a Christian...