Llull framed his Art as a divinely given key to convert unbelievers
Evidence
Immediately following the death of the slave, in the Vita coaetanea, is a revelation: “After this, Ramon went up a certain mountain [Mount Randa] not far from his home, in order to contemplate God in greater tranquility. When he had been there scarcely a full week, it happened that one day while he was gazing intently heavenward the Lord suddenly illuminated his mind, giving him the form and method for writing the aforementioned book against the errors of the unbelievers.” Llull receives a revelation on the mountain, like some new Moses or Muhammad (though the text makes no such direct comparison): God exposes to him a new book, which can be used to bring the infidels to understand Christian truth. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1285
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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- Llull’s conversion project was framed as divinely revealed method (similarity 0.92)
- Llull believed reason, not miracles, would eventually prove Christian truth (similarity 0.82)
- Llull imagined learned Muslims already doubted Muhammad’s prophethood, ripe for conversion. (similarity 0.79)
- Lull’s Ars Magna was a rotating-wheel device meant to convert Muslims by demonstration (similarity 0.79)
- Llull claimed Christianity provable from theistically shared ground with Muslims (similarity 0.78)