Gino’s Reviews > Jesus and Community: The Social Dimensions of Christian Faith > Status Update

“It is one of the church's tragic blind spots that it again and again seeks to protect its authority (which is certainly necessary and legitimate) through domination. In reality it undermines its authority in this way and does serious harm to the gospel. True authority can shine forth only in the weakness of renouncing domination. True authority is the authority of the Crucified.” (120)