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Article: Authority in the Roman Catholic Church: Theory and Practice
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- Anglican Theological Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Authority in the Roman Catholic Church: Theory and Practice. Edited by Bernard Hoose. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002. xii + 253 pages. $120 (cloth).
How to understand and exercise authority is a challenge facing all churches in the early twenty-first century, Anglican and Roman Catholic prominent among them. Both these churches are sacramentally oriented and hierarchically led and governed, and both struggle significantly with their relationship and witness to secular and democratic cultures. In these cultures offices and structures bearing authority in traditional forms are greeted with suspicion and indifference, and by demands for change. Yet these structures of ...