The other great theological reformer of the time, the French lawyer John Calvin, came two decades after Luther, publishing his Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536. It doesn’t matter where you choose to start the story; there is always something essential that came before, some prior context that is assumed. But doing so meant leaving room for all varieties of Anglican faith and practice to coexist peacefully, to the greatest extent possible.

He would have been happy to keep things just as they had been in every respect other than the magisterial status of the pope. That means approaching the work of criticism with constructive intentions and a certain generosity that flows from the mature awareness that none of us is perfect and that we should therefore judge others as we would ourselves wish to be judged, blending justice and mercy.But too much of that will get in the way of relating the most important parts of the story and illuminating the pattern of your own life. The site sits just to the north of the London Road/Chelmsford Road Industrial Estates, two of the town’s principal employment areas, and is intended to be accessed by creation of a new junction on the B1256. Dustjacket, designed by Lanta Spurrier, shows signs of wear including tears to edges and darkening to spine.

Columbus had trouble seeing America for the new thing that it was, and could be, and eventually would become.It is always very easy to add things but very difficult to take them out, because every detail seems important. The physical pictures the author gives us are more than beautiful; they are wonderfully neat and often ironic …. To be sure, he found none of the plentiful spices, jewels, gold, silver, and other precious goods that Marco Polo’s account had led him to expect.

Fortunately, vital technological inventions and improvements in navigation and ship design became available that made such expansive voyages possible – advances in mapmaking and astronomical navigation, the dry magnetic compass, the astrolabe, the quadrant, the cross-staff, and other such instruments, as well as the development of new ships, such as the oceangoing Genoese carrack and the fast and maneuverable Portuguese caravel, whose ingenious combination of differently shaped sails enabled them to move easily against the wind.

These cultures rose, flourished, and fell, blazing a trail across time but leaving behind for us little literature or history, only a few poignant material reminders of them. In fact, the Spanish were the overwhelmingly dominant colonial power in the western hemisphere for more than a hundred years after Columbus’s first voyages of discovery. To believe otherwise is to be naive, and much of what passes for cynicism in our time is little more than naïveté in deep disguise. Such an undertaking would be impossible in any event, because the story is ongoing and far from being concluded.