Crisis of Conscience

(Third edition, Revised and Updated) by Raymond Franz
(with topical and Scriptural indexes),
420 pages. 

A former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses gives a unique insight into the authority structure of that religion. The book allows the reader a view of the decision-making sessions of a religion's inner council, and the powerful, sometimes dramatic, impact their decisions have on people's lives. Although initially written in 1983, the book reveals a distinctive and basic pattern, a pattern which, as the updated information in the third edition shows, continues essentially unchanged. Rather than reducing the book's relevancy, the passage of time serves to manifest the validity of the evidence offered and the currency of the issues and principles involved.

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In Search of Christian Freedom

by Raymond Franz, 736 pages.

Freedom is crucial to genuine Christianity. How erosion of Christian freedom began in the early centuries, how it can and does occur today, and the means for resisting the invasion of personal conscience and thought; a sequel to Crisis of Conscience. Discusses teachings of organizational loyalty, door-to-door activity, disfellowshipping, blood, and many others. [16-page Scriptural index for above.

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(Third edition, Revised and Expanded) by Carl Olof Jonsson, 368 pages, paperback

The idea that the "Gentile Times" referred to at Luke 21:24 form a period of 2,520 years has led to speculation and disappointment among many who expected Christ's return during the past two centuries. How did this belief originate and develop? This book presents the historical evidence, along with a remarkably extensive study of ancient Assyrian and Babylonian records which date the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylonian conqueror Nebuchadnezzar, as well as an enlightening study of the Biblical prophecies regarding the "70 years" of Babylonian domination of Judah.

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Sign of the Last Days - When?

by Carl Olof Jonsson & Wolfgang Herbst
[edited by Raymond Franz]

Is Christ's return identified by unprecedented war, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, crime and other calamities? Evidence that this claim is based on a misunderstanding of Christ's own words; accompanied by historical facts demonstrating how surprisingly little the 20th century has differed in these areas from past centuries.

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Apocalypse Delayed

by M. James Penton (published by University of Toronto Press), Second Edition, 472 pages

The author, a professor of religious history, provides a comprehensive historical study of the movement of Jehovah's Witnesses from its beginning up to recent times. Noteworthy for its wealth of detail and its careful documentation.

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Did second and third century Christians believe that one had to have good works in order to be saved? Did they believe that a Christian could lose his salvation? What did they have to say about predestination? Would they have participated in a war? What would they say to Christ' Church being fragmented in some 22 thousand sects? David W. Bercot's penetrating book _ Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up_ lets the early Christian writings of the first three centuries of Christianity answer these question. 

Weaving a great range of material, Paul Johnson has produced a breathtaking survey of the Christian Faith. He provides the listener with a panoramic overview of the events that have shaped our twentieth century Western lifestyle.

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