Something about Udo Schaefer's "limited infallibility" argument
Channel: Sen McGlinn
Date: 2024-03-23

Today I’m going to look at the words Abdu’l-Baha used for laws and law-making, in his Will and Testament. “Legislation” and the Will and Testament are important in an argument that Udo Schaefer and others have put forward, that the infallibility of the Universal House of Justice is limited to a few instances, in a sphere of action that Udo calls supplementary legislation. Udo believed that judicial decisions on particular cases are not covered by infallibility, and that executive and administrative decisions are not covered by infallibility. He set out the arguments in Desinformation als Methode in 1995, which was translated in Making the Crooked Straight (from page 166) in the year 2000, and published in the same year in Baha’i Studies Review and again in 2002 in Seena Fazel and John Danesh’s collection of papers, Reason and Revelation. 
This is a longer video, made as a dry run for a symposium presentation.