Craig

Hi Frank,
Thanks for your attempts to clarify, but I am sorry to say that I am still a bit confused.
@#9 you said

I certainly don’t understand kephale, as hierarchists do, to mean only “authority over,” nor was I seeking to validate their view of hierarchy of authority in the Church.

But @#7 you said

“only the Head has the right to tell the hand to begin or to stop. The place of the eye is never to usurp the rule of the Head,

Having the right to tell someone what to do, when to begin, when to stop, and having “rule” that others can’t usurp sounds like “having authority” to me. Am I missing something?