The seeds that Habib Guirguis had planted would grow into a movement that would attempt to revive Coptic Orthodoxy to counter the influence of the missionaries and stop their encroachment on what they viewed as theirs: Copts. Reform inspired by the Protestant missionaries and setting them as a model for a more modern church and community vs. revival as a reaction and counter to the Protestant missionaries became the identities of the two roads.
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