Richard Hooker | Foundations of National Conservatism | Brad Littlejohn | Lecture 2

Part II -- Protestantism and Prudence: Richard Hooker as a Founding Father of Conservatism

 

National Conservatism, with its commitment to conserving the identities, cultures, and sovereignty of independent nations, is built upon the Anglo-American conservative tradition, spanning centuries. Many of America's conservative Founding Fathers were shape by three key seedbeds of national conservatism -- the English common law, the Protestant Reformation, and the conservative Enlightenment.

 

In this lecture, our Senior Fellow Brad Littlejohn traces Richard Hooker’s powerful account of how conservative principles like respect for the rule of law and insistence on gradualistic reform arise not out of a reactionary love for the status quo but a sober realism about the limitations of human knowledge and the dangers of unfettered idealism. We will also discover how Hooker’s Protestantism led him to defend the good of independent nations against all globalizing projects for universal human betterment.

 

To deepen our understanding of these critical principals and moments, the Edmund Burke Foundation is excited to offer this 4-part series on the "Foundations of National Conservatism," as a free online seminar series. The inaugural series will be led by EBF Senior Fellow Dr. Bradford Littlejohn.

 

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