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Byzantium and Rome, are points of extreme moment for a
profound study by the Muslim savants.
Then there are the questions of the unity of faith, of
doctrine, and of the revealed text. For more than three cen-
turies the Christian Church had no New Testament as we see
it in its present shape. None of the Semitic or Greek
Churches, nor did Antioch, Edessa, Byzantium, and Rome
possess all the books of the New Testament, nor even the
four Gospels before the Nicene Council. And I wonder
what was or could be the belief of those Christians who
were only in possession of the Gospel of St. Luke, or of
St. Mark, or of St. John, concerning the dogmas of the
Eucharist, Baptism, the Trinity, the miraculous conception
of Christ, and of dozens of other dogmas and doctrines! The
profound study by the Muslim savants.
Then there are the questions of the unity of faith, of
doctrine, and of the revealed text. For more than three cen-
turies the Christian Church had no New Testament as we see
it in its present shape. None of the Semitic or Greek
Churches, nor did Antioch, Edessa, Byzantium, and Rome
possess all the books of the New Testament, nor even the
four Gospels before the Nicene Council. And I wonder
what was or could be the belief of those Christians who
were only in possession of the Gospel of St. Luke, or of
St. Mark, or of St. John, concerning the dogmas of the
Eucharist, Baptism, the Trinity, the miraculous conception
of Christ, and of dozens of other dogmas and doctrines! The