By Schubert Ogden
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If De George is right, it would seem that religious authority, properly so-called, could be analyzed, in part, in accordance with the paradigm of "epistemic authority." Insofar as religious authority is a matter of "what" in the sense of Bultmann's distinction, it's "epistemic" and, like any other epistemic authority, is "in principle expendable" and "always open to challenge."
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