John Locke?s treatise On Civil Government will undoubtably be on my list of the most significant books I?ve read this year. Locke?s work is heavily footnoted with the influence of the Anglican theologian Richard Hooker who wrote Of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity and is sometimes credited as the founding father of the Anglican Church. That church, however, emerged from the efforts of earlier English Protestant reformers including Thomas Cranmer and
Richard Barnes, both of whom were burned at the stake by the Catholic Queen Mary. Barnes, in fact, spent time in Wittenburg, under the teaching of the Saxon refomer, Martin Luther.
So it?s entire appropriate to this forum to make my annual post recognizing the tremendous impact of an invitation to debate posted by a college professor on October 31, 1517, in that little town on the banks of the Elbe.? Here I stand, too, and Gottseidank.
