By Schubert Ogden
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It seems to me that a. causativa in the theological sense may very well be simply a special case of executive authority, even as a. normativanormative may be simply a special case of nonexecutive authority.
In any event, it seems clear that a religion as such functions both as an executive and as a nonexecutive authority -- both authority—both as direct witness, or proclamation, and as indirect witness, or teaching. Thus I have spoken of "both the executive and the nonexecutive authority specific to Christianity."
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