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In The Point of Christology, I argued that it is "characteristic of theistic religions that they each develop certain other concepts and symbols [sc. other than "God"], the whole point of which is to answer their question about who God is by explicitly identifying someone or something that decisively represents God" (37). But what I did not argue there, notwithstanding the support it clearly provides for my main thesis, is that theistic religions, in their way, or in certain of their characteristic forms, also acknowledge, in effect, that even "God" is but one way, albeit the "true" way, of thinking and speaking about (strictly) ultimate reality in its meaning for us.

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