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...Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
...Faith? "Islam was generated as a new faith," says Cragg, "because of the conviction that a new one there must be. But why?" A bitter, running dispute between Christian factions in Arabia scandalized the non-Christian population, and Christian ideas had made no lasting impression on the Arabs among whom Mohammed was,born. "Perhaps in the formative years of Mohammed's quest," says Cragg, "a more virile, a less dubious Christianity could have satisfied his sense of need and obviated the great 'other' that Islam became." Later, Christian assaults in the form of the Crusades taught Islam...
...nations of Islam's teeming household (close to 322 million members) are bursting with newly won freedom and touched with the spirit of change. For the first time, Christian and Moslem face each other on equal ground and with mutual need. It is high time, says Author Cragg, for Christians to re-examine their relationship with the children of the Prophet...
Judas on the Cross? "The objective is not, as the Crusaders believed, the repossession of what Christendom has lost, but the restoration to Moslems of the Christ they have missed ... It aims not to have the map more Christian but Christ more widely known." First task, Author Cragg argues, is to erase the monumental Moslem misunderstandings of Christianity for which the Christian church itself is partly responsible...
...organizational meeting of the committee, which Cragg will chair, will be held in Boston tomorrow. The final report to the government is expected by August...