Encyclopedia - Bible Student Movement: Encyclopedia - Bible Student Movement
The Bible Student movement is a religious movement that sprang from the teachings and ministry of Pastor Charles Taze Russell, whose foll...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bible Student Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Bible Student Movement - The Associated Bible Students
Many of the Bible Student congregations which hold to the writings and views of Pastor Russell refer to themselves under the generic titl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Associated Bible Students: Encyclopedia - Associated Bible Students
The Associated Bible Students is the branch of the Bible Student movement that follows the most closely the teachings and views of Charle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allegheny Pennsylvania: Encyclopedia - Allegheny Pennsylvania
Allegheny was a city in western Pennsylvania, located on the north shore of the junction of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, across from Pi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Taze Russell: Encyclopedia - Charles Taze Russell
Charles Taze Russell, (February 16, 1852 - October 31, 1916), known as Pastor Russell, was an American evangelist from Pittsburgh, Pennsy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bible Students: Encyclopedia - Bible Students
The name Bible Students is used by many segments of what has been termed the Bible Student movement, all of whom follow the doctrinal vie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Millerites: Encyclopedia - Millerites
The Millerite tradition is a diverse family of denominations and Bible study movements that have arisen since the middle of the 19th cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jehovah's Witnesses Splinter Groups: Encyclopedia Ii - Jehovah's Witnesses Splinter Groups - Second Crisis : Pastor Russell's Death
After Charles Taze Russell's death in 1916, Joseph Franklin Rutherford was elected second president of the Watchtower Society and immedia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Associated Bible Students: Encyclopedia Ii - Associated Bible Students - History
In the late ninteenth century, the Bible Students formed congregations, referred to as "Ecclesia's", from the Greek word meaning "ones wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Taze Russell: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Taze Russell - Ministry
Charles Taze Russell - Beginnings. From 1870 through 1875 the Russell family, and others, participated in an analytical study of both t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Millerites: Encyclopedia Ii - Millerites - Distinguished From The Other Groups And Movements
The "Adventist" or "Latter-day" churches arose during the same period as the Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism), and share some compar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jehovah's Witnesses Splinter Groups: Encyclopedia Ii - Jehovah's Witnesses Splinter Groups - Later Departures
In 1928, Norman Woodworth left the Watchtower society to create the radio program Frank and Earnest with the help of the Brooklyn congreg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Taze Russell: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Taze Russell - Death Aftermath And Legacy
During his return from a ministerial tour of the western and southwestern United States, the already ill Pastor Russell died from the res...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Millerites: Encyclopedia Ii - Millerites - Anti-traditional Tendencies
Jesus did not appear as expected. Following this Great Disappointment, although many adherents returned to their traditions, a number of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Millerites: Encyclopedia Ii - Millerites - Origins
Miller was a profitable farmer, a Baptist layman and amateur student of the Bible, living in northern New York, in the region of that sta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jehovah's Witnesses Splinter Groups: Encyclopedia Ii - Jehovah's Witnesses Splinter Groups - First Splits : 1909
In 1907, Pastor Russell more pointedly expressed that Christians were not developed under the New Covenant, but that the New Covenant was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Millerites: Encyclopedia Ii - Millerites - Apocalyptic Tendencies
The return of Christ is believed to signal the inauguration of the Millennium, rather than the conclusion of the Church age and the end o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Taze Russell: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Taze Russell - Early Life
Charles Taze Russell was born to Joseph Lytel Russell and Ann Eliza Birney on Monday, February 16, 1852 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Associated Bible Students: Encyclopedia Ii - Associated Bible Students - Beliefs
Although believing in the divinity of Jesus Christ, Bible Students reject the doctrine of the Trinity as a pagan myth forced into Christi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bible Student Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Bible Student Movement - Other Groups
In 1917, Alexander F.L. Freytag, Branch manager of the Swiss Watch Tower Society since 1898, founded the Angel of Jehovah Bible and Tract...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bible Student Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Bible Student Movement - The New Covenant Bible Students
In 1909, Pastor Russell more pointedly expressed that faithful Christians, as the "true church", were not being called and developed unde...   » Read the article