CP Works of Charles Taze Russell

I know these kinds of discussions come up all the time and everyone has their perspective [Example here. I agree with Phil and enjoyed the discussion], but I was wondering what the community thought about the Charles Taze Russell works.

I want to be clear: I am not opposed to having JW works in Logos. I see tremendous benefit to having these things available for research, and so I'm glad that we can buy them and get the benefits of Logos on resources like these.

However, JW is not Christianity. Yet I feel like the product summary page gives it legitimacy, as if JW is within the historic stream of the faith. Perhaps I'm the only one, so that's why I ask. But from my perspective, given Logos' association with biblical Christianity, offering up this product without any description about the heterodox nature of the material seems like it could trip some people up. It reads like someone who just had a slightly different theological angle, not someone who denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus and the biblical divinity of Christ.

Perhaps it's time to bring up the tagging suggestion again.

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

Lynden O. Williams

William, the customer must beware before they buy. Logos customers cannot even agree on what is Orthodox or acceptable.

One persons lemon is another persons orange. Not interested in that price, but if it goes lower, I will jump on board.

If it mentions the Bible, or helps with Bible study, (JW use the Bible, even if their own translation) then it belongs in Logos.

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/586533#Comment_586533

Put in an order for Thirty dollars. My interest was stimulated.

Everett Headley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/586534#Comment_586534

I'm not sure where to draw the line for that should be "Bible Study" worthy, but from another perspective, having access to the primary documents would be helpful for apologetics. In that aspect I am interested, but I think that $30 is still more than I care to pay for what would be a cursory reading and they occasional reference (like once every 5 years).

That being said, I don't like having what seems like anything in Logos. Dracula to Poe to whatever other there is out there. But I don't have to buy any and they don't have to be in my library, so its not too big a deal.

Milkman

William.

You raise a valid point regarding a Logos disclaimer. It would be nice to have a section of non-orthodox resources, but I can see that being quite dissentious. Who calls what what?

I have been associated with the Witnesses for over thirty years now. My first remembrances go back to when I would follow them around my neighbourhood and knock on the doors just after they did. I would tell the home-owner about the Watch Tower and Tract Society (WT) and share with them the 'real' Jesus. I remember the Witnesses driving by me glaring and saying to me I was a 'goat' as opposed to the sheep class.

What I have found out was using "OLD" material to witness to the witness was not very helpful. If you can get your hands on any of their current CD's that have their material on it, that would be very helpful.

However, in saying that old material is not useful, it does give you a firm foundation and past teachings that you can use to show a Witness how the WT has changed over the years etc.

mm.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/586559#Comment_586559

It would be nice to have a section of non-orthodox resources

I thought we had a very large section - everything Western after the Great Schism[;)] My point is that there is no common definition of "orthodoxy". I find some trinitarian groups more offensive than the JW. I don't believe that Logos could add disclaimers in a manner that didn't offend a significant portion of their clientele. But I am one who would be offended if I walked into a bookstore that didn't believe I was smart enough to choose books for myself. A few staff recommendation cards are as far as I want them to go.

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/586561#Comment_586561

Caveat emptor

Jack Caviness

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/586559#Comment_586559

However, in saying that old material is not useful, it does give you a firm foundation and past teachings that you can use to show a Witness how the WT has changed over the years etc.

Don't remember now which resource, but one of those in this collection Jehovah’s Witness thought and theology was written by a former Jehovah's Witness (David Reed, I believe). He argued that the best tactic for dealing with them was to point out the changes that have taken place in their doctrine over time.

Scott S

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/586559#Comment_586559

I have been associated with the Witnesses for over thirty years now. My first remembrances go back to when I would follow them around my neighbourhood and knock on the doors just after they did. I would tell the home-owner about the Watch Tower and Tract Society (WT) and share with them the 'real' Jesus.

Bravo

Todd Frusti

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/586559#Comment_586559

I have been associated with the Witnesses for over thirty years now. My first remembrances go back to when I would follow them around my neighbourhood and knock on the doors just after they did. I would tell the home-owner about the Watch Tower and Tract Society (WT) and share with them the 'real' Jesus.

What a creative way to share Jesus. [Y]

Paul C

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/586630#Comment_586630

He argued that the best tactic for dealing with them was to point out the changes that have taken place in their doctrine over time.

Have you ever been able to point out anything to a JW?

Jack Caviness

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/586923#Comment_586923

He argued that the best tactic for dealing with them was to point out the changes that have taken place in their doctrine over time.
Have you ever been able to point out anything to a JW?

Once or twice, I believed I may have planted a seed. All we can do is proclaim the truth. The application of that truth is the ministry of God the Spirit.