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For Catholics the Church of God coincides with the Roman priesthood and the Pope. But with such a definition of the church, there is still more difficulty in reconciling, as Homyakov tries to do, the church united by love with the church that recognizes the Nicene Creed and the doctrine of Photius.
If we admit the idea of a church in the sense Homyakov gives to it that is, a body of men bound together by love and truth then all that any man can predicate in regard to this body, if such an one exists, is its love and truth, but there can be no outer signs by which one could reckon oneself or another as a member of this holy body, nor by which one could put anyone outside it; so that no institution having an external existence can correspond to this idea.
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