They distribute a billion pieces of literature annually, and continue to anticipate the end of the world. Ever since that time, Jehovah's Witnesses have been predicting that the world would end "shortly." Their numbers have grown to many millions in over two hundred countries. The first prophecy was not fulfilled, but the outbreak of the First World War lent some credibility to the second. Russell, their founder, advised his followers that members of Christ's church would be raptured in 1878, and by 1914 Christ would destroy the nations and establish his kingdom on earth. The Witness Communit圜onclusionPublisher Marketing: Since 1876, Jehovah's Witnesses have believed that they are living in the last days of the present world. Major DoctrinesPart Three: Organization and Community 10. Relations with the WorldPart Two: Concepts and Doctrine 8. From Dynamic Growth to Organizational Stagnation 7. Charles Russell and the Bible Student Movement 3. The Doctrinal Background of a New American Religious Movement 2. Darrol Bryant, Director, Centre for Dialogue and Spirituality in the World's Religions, Renison University College, University of WaterlooTable of Contents: IntroductionPart One: History 1. Few, if any, can match Professor Penton's knowledge of the literature of, by, and about the movement." - M. As a former member of the sect, Penton offers a comprehensive overview of this significant religious movement.Ĭommendation Quotes:"Apocalypse Delayed is a major work of scholarship, well written and exhaustive. James Penton's Apocalypse Delayed has been the definitive scholarly study of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Atendimento ao cliente Atendimento ao clienteįor almost thirty years, M.James Penton's Apocalypse Delayed, a rare book that seeks not just to discredit and refute the Watchtower, but to understand it. Readers are left with classic studies such as M. (One of the most interesting elements of the narrative is that Noble seems to have transferred the near-divine authority that she once vested in her church to her therapist, whose words are sometimes reprinted here in boldface.) Sadly, few objective accounts exist about the Jehovah's Witnesses little stands in the middle between polemic and apologetic. Certainly, her story is sad, particularly the part about being encouraged to shun her own daughter for several months, but it is hardly a balanced or even very perceptive book.
In Awakening of a Jehovah's Witness: Escape from the Watchtower Society, Noble recounts her quarter-century in the movement, making the usual case that the Society is a cult, that it exercises unhealthy control over the minds and behavior of its members and that it grooms followers to become victims. ""The public needs to be warned,"" says ex-Jehovah's Witness Diane Noble about the religion she once embraced.
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