Paul Anthony Dominiak is Vice Principal of Westcott House and an Affiliated Lecturer in the University of Cambridge, UK

• AcknowledgmentsNote on TextList of AbbreviationsChapter 1: The Participation of God Himselfe’: Hooker and the Recovery of ParticipationChapter 2: ‘Most Abundant Vertue’: Hooker’s Metaphysical Architecture of ParticipationChapter 3: ‘A Drop of that Unemptiable Fountain of Wisdom’: Cognitive Participation in GodChapter 4: ‘Politique Societie’: The Politics of ParticipationChapter 5: ‘To Resolve the Conscience’: Revisiting the Architecture of ParticipationBibliography Index

Paul Dominiak’s monograph on Richard Hooker’s ‘metaphysics of participation’ is an outstanding research achievement. Opening with a discussion of the sapiential theology which inspires Hooker’s generic disposition of the species of law in the first book Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie (1593), Dominiak argues that the work is constructed in accordance with a rigorously architectonic logic […} Dominiak’s approach is radical in that he seeks to penetrate the underlying Neoplatonic metaphysical assumptions of this early-modern English philosophical theologian, and to show how these assumptions animate the treatise as a whole. […] This is an undeniably bold thesis, and the author demonstrates his claim with admirable lucidity and panache.