Pastoral clout: have clergy lost authority?(Excerpt)

The Christian Century | October 2, 2007| | Copyright

IT SEEMS TO BE a commonplace that the history of the clergy in America is a story of steadily declining authority. According to this narrative of decline, other professions have usurped duties once assigned solely to priests and ministers, and the secularization of elite institutions has relegated the clergy to private spheres.

But having explored this issue for several years as part of a Pulpit and Pew project, I have concluded that the reality is more complicated. Ministers have lost some forms of cultural power, but within their primary sphere of responsibility, ...

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