1981
McClean attempts a comparison of John the Baptist across three religious traditions: Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith. Makes the case that while nothing in the Bahá'í writings supports a claim for John the Baptist as an independent Manifestation of God; nevertheless McClean argues that John occupies a station immediately below that of Manifestation. He uses unpublished quotations of Bahá’ulláh to support his thesis and quotes from both the Bible and the Qur'an.