Questions tagged [authority]
Authority of God, the Bible, the Church, etc. For earthly authorities, consider [civil-government].
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How do those against the traditional monepiscopacy deal with Ignatius of Antioch?
It's often claimed that 'Ignatius is the first to believe in the monepiscopacy' (that a bishop runs a church region with the assistance of presbyters/elders) or that 'churches were simply run by a ...
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Do Pentecostals disagree with women preaching?
On whether or not women can be preachers, know several who disagree: Voddie Bauchman, John MacArthur, Norman Geisler, John Pipper, Albert Mohler, Yago Martins (from "Dois Dedos de Teologia"),...
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Assimilation of "Bind and Loose" with "Teaching Authority" by the Catholic Church
This question is somewhat related to another question: Connections Between "Gates of Hell" and Heresies from a Catholic Standpoint
In Fr. William Most's article Which Church Saves? he writes ...
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Theologians who compared the tripartite division of civil authority to the Trinity?
Pope Pius XI, encyclical Quas primas (1925) instituting the feast of Christ the King, says that the "lordship of Christ […] consists […] in a threefold [tripartite] power which is essential to ...
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John Chrysostom On the Priesthood 3.9
What is the Greek word Chrysostom uses for authority?
“The blessed Paul did not suffer them even to speak with authority in the church.”
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Catholic Books in the Public Domain Whose Main Subject is the Magisterium (Teaching Authority of the Catholic Church)
I know that the term Magisterium is relatively recent---it refers to the Teaching Authority of the Catholic Church.
It seems that full length books (a few hundred pages or more) devoted to this topic ...
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