Charles Taze Russell (February 16, 1852 – October 31, 1916), or Pastor Russell, was an well-known early 20th centuryChristianRestorationistminister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and the person who started what is now known as the Bible Student movement,[1] from which Jehovah's Witnesses and some other independent Bible Student groups developed.
Starting in July, 1879 he began publishing a monthly religious journal called Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence. The magazine is now published semi-monthly under the name, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom. In 1881, he co-foundedZion's Watch Tower Tract Society and in 1884 the corporation was officially registered, with Russell as president. Russell wrote very many articles, books, pamphlets and sermons, totalling 50,000 printed pages, with almost 20 million copies of his books printed and delivered around the world.[2] From 1886 to 1904, he published a six-part series called The Millennial Dawn, which later became known as Studi •
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Charles Taze Russell was reared in an evangelical Presbyterian home, but left Christianity as a teenager. In the 1870s, after encountering Millerite preachers who proclaimed Christ's pre-millennial coming, Russell converted, sold his clothing stores, and poured his life and money into promoting adventist theology. He wrote a series of books called Studies in Scripture that encouraged personal Bible study. They sold more than 20 million copies during his lifetime. Russell combined several strands of popular 19th century evangelical theology, but attracted criticism from evangelical Christians for his denial of hell, the immortal soul, the deity of Jesus, and his insistence that God was One, not a Trinity.
After Russell died in 1916, his movement splintered, but the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society that he had founded continued under the leadership of Judge Joseph Rutherford, who changed the name of the Societ •
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Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze), 1852-1916: The At-One-Ment Between God and Man (Studies in the Scriptures series 5; Brooklyn et al: International Bible Students Association, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze), 1852-1916: The Battle of Armageddon (Studies in the Scriptures series 4; Pittsburgh et al.: International Bible Students Association, 1919) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze), 1852-1916: The Finished Mystery (Studies in the Scriptures v7; Brooklyn et al.: International Bible Students Association, 1918), ed. by C. J. Woodworth and George H. Fisher (Gutenberg multiple formats)
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze), 1852-1916: The Finished Mystery (based on the 1926 revision) (HTML at Wayback Machine)
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze), 1852-1916: The New Creation (Studies in the Scriptures series 6; Brooklyn et al.: International Bible Stude