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gazed on it reverently. Theodore writes in the spirit of St. Francis and Thomas à Kempis: "The true Christian is nothing but a copy or impression of Christ,"[1] and he quotes Dionysius the Areopagite when he says, "The archetype appears in the image."[2] Unfortunately this line of argument would almost justify idolatry per se, when distinguished from fetishism.
