December 7, 2007 - 0 Comments

"But the full implications of Arianism were not at first grasped, and Arius attracted widespread support. A master-publicist, Arius rallied grassroots support by composing theological sea-shanties to be sung by the sailors and stevedores on the docks of Alexandria. Theological debate erupted out of the lecture-halls and into the taverns and bars of the eastern Mediterranean."

- Eamon Duffy, Saints and Sinners, a history of the Popes (3rd ed.), 1997.