The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity

of Primal Man and the creation of the world were not 'intended as an allegory' (xxv); but where there is no allegory there can hardly be theology, and the new discoveries cannot show that 'theological orthodoxy' is a 'social construct' (xiii). This fashionable (and psittacine) assertion, if it means anything, is either false or obvious; and how can a case be made against the 'inevitable triumph of, for want of a better phrase, catholic Christianity' (xiii) from witnesses whom catholic Christianity has outlived by more than fifteen hundred years?