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   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
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   > It was the post-Conquest bishop, Anslelm, who wrote "Cur Deus homo?" which   
   > marked the biggest and most significant divergence from Orthodox theology.   
   >   
      
   What are you reading as "Orthodox" theology?  Have you not read Aelfric?    
   Hardly an Orthodox   
   theologian.  Or Bede if we go to the beginning of the period?  Anglo-Saxon   
   England's church was   
   Roman through and through and proud of it.  As I said, the creed for example   
   that exists both   
   in Latin and in Old English from manuscripts of the period includes the   
   filioque clause, one of   
   the key differences between Roman and Byzantium.  So I have to wonder where   
   your   
   characterization of the church in England as Orthodox comes from and on what   
   points, what are   
   your sources and so on.   
      
      
      
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   > But the central point I was making was that the Grail cycle fitted well with   
   > the developments in Eucharistic theology that were taking place n the West at   
   > the time.   
   >   
      
   Sure, I don't disagree with the overall point.  I do disagree with the   
   characterization of the   
   Anglo-Saxon church as Orthodox vs. Roman and the Norman conquest bringing in   
   Roman practice,   
   the conquest of Orthodoxy in the West.   
      
   ljs   
      
      
      
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   > Steve Hayes   
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   > Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm   
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