Dr Paul Dominiak

Research

Anglican Social Theology, natural law, metaphysics, scholasticism, Thomism, Reformed Orthodoxy

Publications

Key publications:

Richard Hooker. The Architecture of Participation (T & T Clark, 2020)
‘The natural desire for God: early modern Catholic and Reformed interpretations of Aquinas,’ in Ben Guyer & Bill Engel, editors, History and Religion in Early Modern England (Brill, 2025)
‘The Law of a Commonweale: Richard Hooker on Civil Society, Civic Virtue, and Religion’ in Scott Kindred-Barnes & Daniel Graves, editors, Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues (Brill, 2024).
‘Richard Hooker, Evil, and the Limits of Theology,’ in Matthias Grebe & Johannes Grössl, editors, T & T Clark Handbook on Suffering and the Problem of Evil (T & T Clark, 2023).
‘An Augustinian Sensibility: The Whole Christ in Hooker’s Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity,’ in George Westhaver and Rebecca Vince, editors, Christ Unabridged: Knowing and Loving the Son of Man (SCM Press, 2019).
‘Moses the Magistrate: The Mosaic Theological Imaginary of John Jewel and Richard Hooker in Elizabethan Apologetics,’ in Angela Ranson, Andre Gazal, and Sarah Bastow, editors, Defending the Faith. John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018).
‘Hooker, scholasticism, Thomism, and Reformed orthodoxy,’ in W. Bradford Littlejohn, editor, Richard Hooker & Reformed Orthodoxy (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2017).
Issue Editor for ‘Established and Emerging Voices in Richard Hooker Research,’ Perichoresis 12.1 (2014).
'“From the Footstool to the Throne of God”: Methexis, Metaxu, and Eros in Richard Hooker’s Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity,” Perichoresis 12.1 (2014): 57-76.
‘The logic of desire: a reappraisal of reason and the emotions in Richard Hooker’s Lawes,’ Reformation & Renaissance Review 16.1 (2014): 37-51.