Lost Christianities; The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew metaphysics and understand the text of

and understand the text of the Qur'an

especially during the 'classical' period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries

of which they see themselves as the custodians

In Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism

Martin Lings treats all the three questions with equal justice

Lost Christianities; The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew metaphysics and understand the text ofIn Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, and they all possessed writings that bore out their claims, books reputedly produced by Jesus's own followers. Modern archaeological work has recovered a number of key texts, and as Ehrman shows, these