Russellite movement

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The Russellite movement was an early Bible Student religious movement founded by Charles Taze Russell that emphasized millenarian Bible interpretation and later gave rise to groups such as Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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instanceOf Bible Student movement
Christian millenarian movement
religious movement
associatedWith International Bible Students Association
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
surface form: Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society
classification Bible Student movement
restorationist movement
coreText Bible
Studies in the Scriptures
doctrineIncludes belief in Christ’s invisible presence
belief in an approaching millennial kingdom
emphasis on restitution of all things
rejection of eternal torment in hell
emphasis Bible prophecy interpretation
end-times chronology
imminent Second Coming of Christ
foundedBy Charles Taze Russell
gaveRiseTo JehovahsWitnesses
surface form: Jehovah’s Witnesses

various Bible Student groups
hasAlternativeName Russellism
early Bible Student movement
historicalContext post-Adventist restorationist Christianity
influenced Jehovah’s Witnesses eschatology
Watch Tower Society theology
inspiredBy Adventist teachings
keyFigure Charles Taze Russell
languageOfEarlyPublications English
namedAfter Charles Taze Russell
organizationalStructure loosely organized Bible study groups
originatedIn Pennsylvania
United States of America
surface form: United States
periodOfProminence 1890s
early 20th century
practices distribution of religious literature
systematic Bible study
preceded JehovahsWitnesses
surface form: Jehovah’s Witnesses
regionOfActivity Europe
North America
religiousTradition Christianity
separatedFrom mainline Protestantism
startTime late 19th century
theologicalOrientation millenarianism
viewOnAfterlife emphasis on resurrection
viewOnSoul rejection of inherent immortality of the soul
viewOnTrinity nontrinitarian

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