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  • There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

    "Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone" by Immanuel Kant, Book IV, Part 1, Section 1, 1793.