... decrees and other actions that was deliberately meant to increase the identity and historical awareness of the Muslim Filipinos. Such an attitude was aggressively professed by Najeeb M. Saleeby, a Christian Syrian-born doctor who was recognized by the American colonial government as an expert in Muslim Filipino affairs. His view that "American principles working on a unique Philippine population with ... a distinctive cultural history (Muslim Filipinos) would achieve an outcome analogous to that devised for the Christian Filipinos- strongly influenced many of the governors who overlooke...

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... first century), the major gnostic impact was made on the doctrine and structures of the Christian church in the second and early third centuries. Its critics, both Christian and Pagan, seem to have regarded it primarily as a Christian heresy. In addition to numerous scattered groups, two main schools of systematic gnostic thought seem to have existed in the second century the Basilideans and ... how the rift between appearance and reality occurred and the prescription for return from appearance into reality. Reaction to gnostic concerns exerted a formative influence on the shape and cont...

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