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The meaning of the authority of the Bible

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2001

MAARTEN WISSE
MAARTEN WISSE
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy of Religion, Utrecht University, PO Box 80105, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Abstract

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What does it mean to say that the Bible has authority? The author introduces and develops J. M. Bocheński's philosophical theory about the nature of authority. On this basis, he distinguishes between different kinds of authority, which he applies to the authority of the Bible. Subsequently, he shows that the theory of Bocheński should be improved by reworking it from the perspective of speech-act theory. This leads to the presentation of an overall theory of authority that matches authority in general as well as the authority of the Bible.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , December 2000 , pp. 473 - 487
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press