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It seems reasonable to hold that theism, properly so-called, necessarily involves the use of personalistic concepts and symbols, in that it conceives and symbolizes strictly ultimate reality as an eminent person, insofar like ordinary, noneminent persons who relate to one another as well as to the eminent person by relations of love, knowledge, judgment, care, and so on. But, then, it would seem equally reasonable to expect that there may be the same ambiguity in thinking and speaking about the eminent person's love as in thinking and speaking about the love of ordinary persons.

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