Excerpt from Public Opinion and Theology

How can we adjust the claims of Christianity to be an absolutely binding religious system to a day which lays increasing stress upon the popular will as the only source of authority in society? Dogmatists of opposed types are ready with an answer. One declares that the problem is really no problem at all since the voice of the people is the voice of God. The dogmatist of the other camp oracularly replies that the sovereignty of the kingdom of God has right of way over all popular decrees whatsoever.

The dictum that the voice of the people is the voice of God does not help us much. It is very difficult to prevail upon the radical expounders of popular sovereignty to tell us what they mean by the voice of the people. A swarm of questions arise to our lips as this dictum is urged upon us. Who are the people? Is the term to be made all-inclusive?

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