RT Article
T1 A Reconsideration of Religious Authority in Christian Theology
JF Heythrop journal
VO 55
IS 3
SP 467
OP 480
A1 Carnes, Natalie
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1781967547
AB As Stanley Cavell has critiqued Christianity for displacing authority from the individual to somewhere beyond critical assessment, so several Christian theologians have also turned to Wittgenstein to justify just such displacement. This article suggests that both offer theologically impoverished and historically inattentive accounts of authority. It aims instead to sketch five moments in the Christian tradition to suggest five ways of naming the intimacy of religious authority with individual critical assessment. Such intimacy is then theologically described through the doctrinal loci of creation and incarnation, which generate a picture of authority surprisingly near to one Cavell might want to celebrate.
DO 10.1111/heyj.12038