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Originally Posted by No Robots I wish I could remember where I read that the Muhammad was just trying to put an end to the Christological disputes.

The theologians had simply taken on a new metaphysical ballast that was too heavy for them, as they lurched anew into the Apollinarian, Nestorian and Monophysite controversies. We can perhaps understand how easy it was for Mohammed to blow the whistle on the whole confusing game, with the simple, uncompromising assertion that God is One.—Theodosius: the empire at bay (or via: amazon.co.uk) / Stephen Williams and Gerard Friell, p. 50