A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

There was already a bishop in Canterbury, a Frankish chaplain of Queen Bertha’s, and a functioning church, dedicated either by Franks or by earlier British Christians to St Martin of Tours.

John Newton

Quite apart from its general connivance with slavery’s existence, the Bible contributed a useful prop to the institution, in the story of the drunkenness of Noah.

‘Exceedingly odd is the means by which God/Has provided our path to the heavenly shore …’

Also here: http://allthislifeandheaventoo.blogspot.com/2013/12/exceedingly-odd.html

Sebastian Brock points out to me that despite the Church of the East’s deep admiration for Evagrius as a spiritual teacher, it reviles Evagrius’s inspiration Origen, condemning what it regards as his irresponsible use of allegory (so foreign to the style of literal biblical scholarship deriving from Antioch), and also seeing his cosmological speculation as dangerous.