The Review of Religions September 1932

In fact in Plato's view of the creation of the world we may recognize one of the germs of the subsequent doctrine of the Trinity. [...] The presupposition is that the world is a living being an organism possessed of a soul and in a.smuch as that all permeating soul the world soul is the most immediate image and emanation of the deity Plato could describe the world as the second God and the only begotten sop of the Father"1932 ORIGIN AND DEvELOPMENT ECT. [...] In regard to Paul's efforts to explain his beliefs in terms of the philosophy of the day using the language of current philosophy and to pose as a heathen before the heathens and a Jew before the Jews the writer of The Apostle of Progress a fervent admirer of Paul says :— To plung into any statements of the peculiar doctrines of Christianity or to deal in that sort of defiance which is the weapo [...] Sedillot referring to the contributions of the Arabs between the eighth and the thirteenth centuries of the Christian era says " the vast literature which existed during this period the multifarious productions of genius the precious inventions all of which attest a marvellous activity of intellect justify the opinion that the Arabs were our masters in everything. [...] Hence the necessity of new Prophets each time and the need of centennial Reformers in Islam and the need of a PropheReformer in the beginning of the 14th century of the Muslim Era.