Talk:Bible Student movement/Archive 1

Goals in creating this page
My goal in creating this page :
 * Document the history of the early JWs, and who split and joined (there's some interesting stuff in nazi germany, when the iron curtain fell, etc.)
 * Have a place to move some of the material from the Charles Taze Russell article.
 * Replace / complement the Jehovah's Witnesses splinter groups article that didn't turn out as well as I expected.
 * complement the Bible Students article - I think focusing on the movement rather than on the bible students is easier and more constructive, since we don't have to worry about who really is and isn't a Bible Student. I feel the Bible Students article is mostly about the Associated Bible Students (not the Free Bible Students).

It still needs quite a bit of work ...

Flammifer 14:05, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Copied stuff from Splinter Groups page
I haven't reworked things that much, but recategorizing things already allowed me to notice that one group was mentioned twice.

I think this organization (the main groups and their history) is better than the purely chronological approach of the other page. Flammifer 14:20, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Only Russell ?
I wonder, was Russell the *only* "founder" of the movement ? I'm not sure he was, I'd have to re-check some history. Seems the early Bible Student movement had a few major figures, Russell was just the biggest, but by no means the only initator.

(On a related line, we could probably do with a list of major figures in the (early) movement) Flammifer 04:45, 18 August 2005 (UTC)