The Qu'ran at Notre Dame?
Francis Oakley July 9, 2007 - 10:38am
God’s Continent
Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis
Philip Jenkins
Oxford University Press, $28, 352 pp.
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,” “the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has [ever] had...
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