1The Biblical and Patristic Foundations of Anglican Sacramentalism as Understood by the English Reformers Presented at the Mere Anglicanism conference in Charleston, SC on 1 February 2008. Published with the kind permission of Elliott House of Studies, copyright holders of the works of Robert Crouse, all rights reserved.
Sacraments, by reason of their mixed nature, are more diversely interpreted and disputed of than any other part of religion besides…’. So pronounces Richard Hooker, in the course of his lengthy discussion of Sacraments in Book V of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.2Quotations from Hooker’s Laws are from Keble’s edition, cited by book, chapter, and section. ‘By reason