Thanks Lutherius for that excellent article. I think the topic probably has enough for a whole book. If you want to write more about it, here are some issues that I find relevant:

1. Description of healthy leadership structures vs. unhealthy ones (for example, balance of power, avoiding of moral conflicts by splitting responsibilities etc.), because some sort of leadership has to exist, but when does it become abusive?

2. Look at some examples of abusive authority in non-emotional systems, to see what is specific in emotional systems and what is not.

3. The theology behind authoritarian systems: where does it come from, was it "invented" to fit the purpose, is it older than p/c theology etc. In another thread it was mentioned that some pf p/c authority theology is based on Watchman Nee, so maybe look at how his ideas went into p/c theology.

4. Personalities in abusive systems. I think leaders of abusive systems often have or develop the "male" for of narcissm, whereas people with the "female" form of narcissm (co-narcissm, don't know the correct terms here) tend to bind to such leaders and thus form a stabilizing codependent relationship that can perpetuate such abusive systems.

Thank you very much again for your analysis, it really made it clear to me why there is this connection between the emotional part and the authoritarian part of p/c theology.

JoRi