In a similar vein, though more concerned with matters of substance than style, Pope John Paul II remarked: “Whoever knows the Old and New Testaments, and then reads the Qur’an, clearly sees the process by which it completely reduces Divine Revelation. It is impossible not to note the movement away from what God said about himself, first in the Old Testament through the prophets, and then finally in the New Testament through his Son. In Islam all the richness of God’s self-revelation, which constitutes
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