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HRN speaks, significantly, of the kind of "ecclesiasticism" in which "echoes of monotheism continue to be heard," in that "[t]he God to whom reference is made in every act of worship and in every proclamation of the church's message is still to some extent acknowledged as the principle of being." "Yet," he adds, "the confusion is there between that objective principle and its image in the church. The God of the Christian church has become confused with a Christian God, the One beyond all the many with the collective representation of a church that is one community among many" (RMWC: 59). A few pages later, he speaks of "the people of faith" being "tempted to substitute that which makes them one and makes them different – their different—their faith or their culture – for culture—for the objective One with whom the faith began" (61).

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