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In arguing, as I long have, that God is not properly an authority, not even the highest, but is rather the primal source of authority, I have been following a precedent set not only by Paul Tillich's well-known statement that "God is not a being, but being-itself," but also by H. Richard Niebuhr, when he speaks of God as "principle of being" and "principle of value," rather than as either "highest being" and "highest value" or as "Being" and "the Good" (Radical Monotheism: 33, n. 7; italics added).

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