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Types of authority

David Kendall explores issues relating to the A2 paper RST4C

This article looks at one way you might approach answering a question from RST4C on the topic ‘Religious authority’. Two major areas that you are asked to consider on this paper are ‘sources of authority’ and ‘types of authority’, and this article will look at the latter.

The specification identifies four types of religious authority:

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