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Chryssides, How Prophecy Succeeds: Jehovah's Witnesses and Prophetic Expectations (International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 2010)

George D. Chryssides

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George D. Chryssides's peer reviewed article traces how the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society's understanding of the generation that would not pass away has changed across four periods, from founder Charles Taze Russell's own era through a revised chronology adopted in 1935 to the Society's 1 November 1995 Watchtower reinterpreting the term as the contemporaneous generation of unbelievers rather than a single dateable cohort alive in 1914, arguing that the pattern reflects changing understandings of biblical chronology more than failed prediction.

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Author
George D. Chryssides
Publisher
International Journal for the Study of New Religions
URL
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IJSNR/article/view/12210
Source Type
peer-reviewed article
Assessment
Reliability Tier
1
A peer reviewed academic journal article in the International Journal for the Study of New Religions, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable peer reviewed scholarship, used here for the 1995 reinterpretation's place within the wider history of Witness prophetic expectation, corroborated by the Watch Tower Society's own published explanation.
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