This model powerfully supports an ecclesiastical gnosticism that exempts the hierarchy from standard forms of scholarly accountability and reduces the theological task to mediating authoritative documents. (religion-online.org)
Photography can be felt to be a very authoritative document, but is also often mistrusted in its ability to convey a truth. (iada.kz)
Although Declarations, as resolutions of the General Assembly, can not make law, they often represent or come to represent customary international law and then are cited as authoritative documents. (slaw.ca)