In his essay "Sinsick," theologian Stanley Hauerwas explores the notion of authority using a medical analogy. If a medical student told his advisor, "I'm not into anatomy this year, I'm into relating" ...

I know a minister whose shoe laces I am unworthy to unloose, whose preaching is often little better than a sacred miniature painting–I might almost say holy trifling. He is great upon the ten toes of ...