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5 4.50 / 2 Paper Topic:  DQ#1 Religion   The process of division
and subdivision into so many denominations experienced by
Christianity has been brought about by the textual complexity of
its single , sacred text , the Holy Bible . Christian scholars
involved in the interpretation of the biblical passages could
not agree on a single , common method of understanding their
real meanings . The bible became the subject of intense debate
which stayed unresolved , resulting to the burgeoning of
Christian denominations  In the eighteenth century , perhaps in
to simplify matters , there emerged in Western Europe an
approach of studying the bible  strictly from a historical
perspective . This approach , which involves interpreting the
writings found in the bible within their historical context
using the literary method is , until now , acceptable to most
Roman Catholics , some Orthodox Christians , and Protestants
(Fisher 2005  However , in the 19th and