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Concerning Authority

Clearly, the underlying logic of my entire christology is the logic of the concept of authority. But just as clearly, my own explicit treatments of the concept, which either are or approximate definitions of it, do not adequately explicate this logic.

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27 September 1986; rev. 30 July 1996; 6 November 1997

Wiki Markup_Corrigendum_: If it is true, as I have argued elsewhere, that "I obviously use 'action' in more than one sense" and that "Self-understanding is also action -- – specifically transcendental action," then there is no need "to revise my definition of authority" -- – as "the right \ [and the power\] to command and or act as regards the action or belief of others" -- – even if "it is our self-understanding that is first of all explicitly authorized through Jesus Christ."

29 October 2009