Week 10: Two Kinds of Legitimacy

What a court can decide about a church, and what it pointedly can't

26 April 2027

Outline#

• the Temple Lot property dispute and the 1894 decision
• what a civil court can rule on: incorporation, property title, organisational continuity
• what it can’t and won’t rule on: whose revelation was real
• keeping legal and theological legitimacy separate in your own writing