Verbum Dei: The Words of God Revisited

That’s why if some one is unable to say that al-Qur’an is the words of God because of her/his historical approach, there is no problem with it. It is rational to understand that as a tool, history cannot provide material data about God; where he said? When he revealed? Which language he talked? And so on. The furthest contribution of history to the doctrine of al-Quran as the words of God is not by providing chronological evidences, but meanings and significances by which believers can relate them