T.E. Lawrence on the progression of Christianity

from Seven Pillars of Wisdom:

"..And then Christianity had had the fortune of later architects of genius: and in its passage through time and clime had suffered sea changes incomperably greater than the unchanging Jewry, from the abstraction of Alexandrian bookishness into Latin prose, for the mainland of Europe, and last and most terrible passing of all, when it became Teuton, with a formal synthesis to suit our chilly disputations north. So remote was the Presbyterian creed from the Orthodox faith of its first or second embodiment that, before the war, we were able to send missionaries to persuade these softer Oriental Christians to our presentation of a logical God."