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Charisma

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Carismatic Authority and Pentecostal Authority

Carismatic and pentecostal movements within christianity. Can you draw a line, straightline, between babe's idea of carismatic authority and the irrational? Well, tom as talking about vaba three kinds of authority. Those, traditional authority that appeals to ritual and custom and practice; then there's bureaucratic authority which appeals to reason and rationality. Matic authority doesn't have an apparatus of coercion behind it. It directly inspires or seduces people. And actually those are the really powerful things that drive us. So in that sense, caismatic authority is more powerful than traditional authority or bureaucratic authority.

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