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Max Weber · 2019
Weber's vast, unfinished masterwork is where the modern vocabulary of authority was forged. Buried in its analytic machinery is the distinction Vela leans on most: the three pure types of legitimate domination — traditional, legal-rational, and charismatic — and the unstable life of the third, which cannot survive its founder unless it hardens into one of the other two.
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Authority comes in three pure types — traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational — and the disenchanting drift of modern life is the routinization of charisma into bureaucracy.
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This is the source text for charismatic authority and its routinization, the load-bearing frame for reading how a Spirit-driven movement becomes a church. Weber writes as a diagnostician of how authority is held and how it decays, and Vela uses his ideal-types as lenses rather than measurements. Read it for the typology that still organizes the question of why some leaders are obeyed and what happens to a movement the morning after the founder is gone.
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Early-church leadership read through charismatic authority and its routinization.
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