Abstract
According to Shores of Knowledge, Columbus issued in "the most significant unintended consequences of all: the breaking open of the closed world of Christianity" (14). Hers is the old story of Enlightenment empiricism's victory over the text-bound and closed-minded religiosity of "Christians whose Bible was presumed to describe all that humans needed to know" (18). [...]it belongs on that list of dispensable titles that every library should ignore.