source of authority in Christianity

C1678
concept

A source of authority in Christianity is any recognized foundation—such as Scripture, church tradition, ecclesial leadership, or personal spiritual experience—that provides binding guidance for Christian belief and practice.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Christian doctrine source 1
doctrinal authority 1
source of authority in Christianity canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: source of authority in Christianity
Generated description
A source of authority in Christianity is any recognized foundation—such as Scripture, church tradition, ecclesial leadership, or personal spiritual experience—that provides binding guidance for Christian belief and practice.

Instances (3)

Instance Via concept surface
Holy Tradition
teachings of Jesus Christian doctrine source
magisterium of the Catholic Church
surface form: Magisterium of the Catholic Church
doctrinal authority