This sourceCross-cultural analysis treating authority not as a thing but as an effect produced by the conjunction of the right speaker, the right speech, the right staging and setting, and an audience conditioned to respond with trust and recognition; foundational for understanding scriptural, hierarchical, and doctrinal authority in religious institutions.
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Lincoln's book argues that authority "is not an entity but an effect", one depending on the combination of the right speaker, the right speech, the right staging and props, the right time and place, and an audience historically and culturally conditioned "to respond with trust, respect, and even reverence". That is the account the sentence attributes to him: authority as a staged conjunction of speaker, speech and prepared audience rather than a possession. The passage stating the thesis is the publisher's description of the book rather than Lincoln's own prose, and it names five conditions where the sentence names three.
“In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln argues that authority is not an entity but an effect. More precisely, it is an effect that depends for its power on the combination of the right speaker, the right speech, the right staging and props, the right time and place, and an audience historically and culturally conditioned to judge what is right in all these instances and to respond with trust, …”
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