Voices of authority

the long version

Authority has always been a crucial issue for the Church, but never more than today. The author looks at every side of it, coming to see it less as a separate problem than a dimension of all the rest. Authority, he says, seems at first a 'clatter of contradictory voices'; his humane and balanced study enables us to do more than merely live with them, but rather to discover in them some aspect of the voice of truth.