Essays And Addresses An Attempt to Treat Some Religious Questions in a Scientif
Essays And Addresses An Attempt to Treat Some Religious Questions in a Scientif
J M James Maurice Wilson
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There is (i) the preponderant weight we assign to the learning and judgment of men whose veracity and impartiality we trust. We speak of the author- ity of a scholar like Lightfoot. It is not, however, an authority in the sense that it demands obedience ; it only demands respect and consideration. There is (2) another sort of authority. There are men with an unrivalled genius for holiness ; men refined by prayer and unflinching devotion to duty, and therefore gifted with a singular delicacy of ...touch and insight, with a true inspiration of God's Holy Spirit. We feel in them our best selves : we feel that they arc nearer to God than we are ; their words have an authority. Still, this is not an authority which commands obedience : it silently appeals for respect and love. It is compatible with error. There is (3) yet another authority which does command obedience, which has the power of enforc- ing itself The Church, acting through its defined powers, has authority. The Bishop may suspend for defined offences in virtue of his " authority, " Once more, these kinds of authority are so differ- ent that they can only be taken together by confusion of thought.
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