But why should Muslims care if Catholics wanted them to be a bit more «Sufi,» keener
on allegorical interpretation of the Koran and the Hadith, and cooler on taking words like «jihad» literally?
Thanks to the admirable work of de Lubac
on the «four meanings» of Scripture — historical,
allegorical, moral, anagogical — the breadth of this mutual
interpretation of Scripture and existence is known.