The Fragmentation of a Sect: Schism in the Worldwide Church of God

by David V. Barrett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019986151X
• ISBN13: 9780199861514
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"