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User:Rursus/Are JWs christians, really

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JWs are christians? Talk:Jehovah's_Witnesses/Archive_51#Reserved_for_sources:
  • "Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian milennial movement"John Stephen Bowden, Encyclopedia of Christianity, (Oxford University Press, 2005), 653.
  • "The story of the Fall is central to all Christian belief, but unlike those who follow orthodox Christianity, the Witnesses regard it as a factual event..."Andrew Holden (2002)
  • "Christianity is as Luapulan as matriliny; both are involved in the ongoing process of change. Specific features of both organization and doctrines of salvation within different Protestant denominations constitute independent variables that differentially induce behavioral changes. In Luapula, two denominations, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists, stand out from the rest because they adopt a critical attitude toward people's conduct and local conditions."Karla Poewe, Religion, Matriliny, and Change: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists in Luapula, Zambia
  • "In North America, the adoption of a Christian theology that dissents from traditional fundamental affirmations (such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science) or the adoption of a non-Christian religious ideology (Scientology, Tenrikyô) will quickly lead to a group being assigned outsider status."Gordon Melton, "Title required", Nova Religio 8 (2003): 82.
  • "Protestantism is often seen as opposing Catholicism. For example Fortuny (Chapter 5) writes how the Jehovah's Witnesses challenge modern urban Mexican Catholicism." James W Dow, Protestantism in Mesoamerica: The Old within the New[comment 1]

Comments

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  1. ^ unusual def of "protestantism" (User:Rursus)
  2. ^ Weak! the table is in disorder and not reflecting any analysis (User:Rursus)

I'm not seeing much in the way of support for your opinion on the "cult" status of JW's. Vyselink (talk) 19:20, 8 September 2011 (UTC)