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Fragmentation of a Sect - Schisms in the Worldwide Church of God (Paperback)
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Fragmentation of a Sect - Schisms in the Worldwide Church of God (Paperback)
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In the mid-1930s Herbert W. Armstrong, an unsuccessful American
advertising executive, founded a millennialist Sabbatarian
Christian sect with a heterodox theology. Over the next half
century, despite a number of setbacks, scandals, criticisms, and
attacks from former members and anti-cultists, Armstrong's
organization, the Worldwide Church of God, grew to around 100,000
baptized members with a world circulation of over six million for
its flagship monthly magazine Plain Truth. In January 1986,
Armstrong died. His successor changed most of the church's
distinctive doctrines, leading it towards an increasing convergence
with mainstream Evangelical Christianity. This created a massive
cognitive dissonance in ministers and members: should they accept
or reject the authority of the church leadership which had
abandoned the authority of the founder's teachings? Groups of
ministers left the religion to form new churches, taking tens of
thousands of members with them. These schismatic churches in turn
faced continuing schism, resulting in over 400 offshoot churches
within little more than a decade. In this major study David V.
Barrett tells the story of the Worldwide Church of God. He examines
the processes involved in schism and the varying forms of
legitimation of authority within both the original church and its
range of offshoots, from hardline to comparatively liberal. His
book extends the concepts of rational choice theory when applied to
complex religious choices. He also offers a new typological model
for categorizing how movements can change after their founder's
death, and explores the usefulness of this model by applying it not
only to the Worldwide Church of God but also to a wide variety of
other religions.
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