"In the prophetic tradition, properly understood, Islam must be perceived as a legitimate dialectical response to the failure of orthodox Christianity. Protestants should be able to see that the need for a Protestant Reformation was there already in the 7th century C.E., to be perceived by prophetic eyes. ... New light is coming from ... a profounder appreciation of Judeo-Christian heresy, the alternatives eliminated by that triumph of orthodoxy which Hegel regards, as he regards all world-historical triumphs, as the triumph of God. Victrix causa deis placuit."
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The Latin phrase "The victorious cause pleased the gods" is from Lucan.
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Norman O. Brown
1913 – 2002
Norman Oliver Brown (1913 – 2002) was an American scholar, writer, and social philosopher.
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