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Charles Taze Russell was born to Scotch-Irish parents, [8] immigrant Joseph Lytle/Lytel / ˈ l ɪ t əl / Russell and Ann Eliza Birney, on February 16, 1852, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Russell was the second of five children, of whom two survived into adulthood. His mother died when he was nine years old. [9]
The Photo-Drama of Creation, or Creation-Drama, is a four-part audiovisual presentation (eight hours in total) produced by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania under the direction of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Bible Student movement. The presentation presents their beliefs about God's plan from the creation of ...
The Bible Student movement is a Millennialist [1] Restorationist Christian movement. It emerged in the United States from the teachings and ministry of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), also known as Pastor Russell, and his founding of the Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society in 1881.
Charles Taze Russell [41] Bible Student movement: 1852–1916 Wovoka: Ghost Dance: 1856–1932 Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophy: 1861–1925 Swami Vivekananda: Ramakrishna Mission: 1863–1902 William Irvine [42] Two by Twos and Cooneyites: 1863–1947 Max Heindel: The Rosicrucian Fellowship: 1865–1919 Tsunesaburo Makiguchi: Soka Gakkai: 1871 ...
Jehovah's Witnesses' practices are based on the biblical interpretations of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), founder (c. 1881) of the Bible Student movement, and of successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford (from 1917 to 1942) and Nathan Homer Knorr (from 1942 to 1977).
Russell's Studies in the Scriptures as well as all other writings never before reproduced since his death were now being republished independently of the Dawn, alongside radio and television programs, journals, newsletters, books and booklets produced by various Bible Student individuals and congregations independent of the Dawn. As of 1992 all ...
Charles Russell in 1911. In the 1870s, a Bible study group led by Charles Taze Russell formed into what was eventually called the Bible Student movement. Russell's congregations did not consider him to be the founder of a new religion, [78] but that he helped in restoring true Christianity from the apostasy that Jesus and the Apostle Paul foretold
A dispute developed in 1917 within the leadership of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society following the death of society president Charles Taze Russell and the election of legal counsel Joseph Franklin Rutherford as his successor. An acrimonious battle ensued between Rutherford and four of the society's seven directors, who accused him of ...