Brooding in 1938 about the degree to which the future has a distressing way of taking us by surprise, the Anglo-French author Hilaire Belloc, so admired by his English Catholic contemporaries, ventured the startling prediction that the principal unexpected development lying in wait for the Europeans of his own day was nothing other than “the return of Islam,” R (...)
July 13, 2007
Books
The Qu'ran at Notre Dame?
God’s ContinentChristianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious CrisisPhilip JenkinsOxford University Press, $28, 352 pp.
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