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A religion without priest or sacrament might be intelligible; but these
characteristics of natural religion were associated with a holy Book, generally
held by the few Westerners who knew it to be full of absurdities, and a divinely
appointed ...
A religion without priest or sacrament might be intelligible; but these
characteristics of natural religion were associated with a holy Book, generally
held by the few Westerners who knew it to be full of absurdities, and a divinely
appointed ...
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But they also made the religion and founder of Islam for the first time familiar
concepts in the West. Before noo I have found only one mention of the name of
Mahomet in medieval literature outside Spain and Southern Italy.25 But from
about the ...
But they also made the religion and founder of Islam for the first time familiar
concepts in the West. Before noo I have found only one mention of the name of
Mahomet in medieval literature outside Spain and Southern Italy.25 But from
about the ...
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These vices in the Church were, in a mysterious way, the cause of the rise of
Islam, which only began with the growth of pride and avarice and the
possessions of the Church.24 And just as worldliness in the Church produced the
religion of ...
These vices in the Church were, in a mysterious way, the cause of the rise of
Islam, which only began with the growth of pride and avarice and the
possessions of the Church.24 And just as worldliness in the Church produced the
religion of ...
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