Critical Works (1910–2011)

Writings against the teaching of Russell, his successors or the Society, from the 1910s to the 21st century: Protestant ministers and theologians who answered Millennial Dawn and "Russellism" in Russell's lifetime and in the 1920s (Ross, Eaton, Gray, Haldeman, Forrest, Stevens, Ridout, Stump, Conner, Shields and others); Catholic replies to Rutherford's attacks on the Church (Edward Lodge Curran, 1940) and of the 1960s (a Knights of Columbus booklet, 1963); the documents of the 1917 split after Russell's death; exposures of the Rutherford era; outside studies of Jehovah's Witnesses from the 1950s–60s (Talbot, Pike, Rogerson); and accounts by former members, including Raymond Franz, a member of the Governing Body until 1980, Barbara Anderson, Carl Olof Jonsson and the correspondence of James Zimmerman with the Society. They are included because they are part of the historical record; the Society answered many of them in its own publications, which are in this archive.

These works were not published by the Watch Tower Society; see the Related Works section page for why they are in this library.

• The Errors of "Millennial Dawnism" (1910)
• The Millennial Dawn Heresy: An Examination of Pastor Charles T. Russell's Teaching (1911)
• Some Facts and More Facts About the Self-Styled "Pastor" Charles T. Russell (1913)
• All About One Russell (1914)
• Astounding Errors: The Prophetic Message of the Seventh-day Adventists and the Chronology of Pastor C. T. Russell in the Light of History (1914)
• Errors of Russellism: A Brief Examination of the Teachings of Pastor Charles T. Russell (1915)
• How Russellism Subverts the Faith (1915)
• What Russellism, or Millennial Dawnism, Teaches (1915)
• Why I Reject the "Helping Hand" of Millennial Dawn (1915)
• Why Not "Russellism"? Alias "Millennial Dawnism" (1916)
• The 1917 Watch Tower Bible Student Schism (Documents)
• In the Cult Kingdom: Mormonism, Eddyism, and Russellism (1918)
• Russellism (1920)
• The Deadly Fallacy of Russellism or Millennial Dawnism (1920)
• Russellism: A Counterfeit Christianity (1923)
• Russellism or Rutherfordism: The Teachings of the International Bible Students (1925)
• The Teachings of Pastor Russell (1926)
• Witnesses Out of the Bottomless Pit (1933)
• Judge for Four Days: Rutherford (1940)
• Jehovah's Witnesses: Who They Are, What They Teach, What They Do (1954)
• A Catholic Critique of Jehovah's Witnesses (Knights of Columbus) (1963)
• Millions Now Living Will Never Die: A Study of Jehovah's Witnesses (1969)
• Correspondence Between Carl Olof Jonsson and the Watch Tower Society, 1977–1980
• Crisis of Conscience (1983)
• In Search of Christian Freedom (1991)
• Correspondence Between James Zimmerman and the Watch Tower Society About a Global or Local Flood, 1997–2007
• What's Wrong With Jehovah's Witnesses? (2000)
• Joe Anderson Letter of Resignation (2002)
• Secrets of Pedophilia in an American Religion (2007)
• Secrets of Pedophilia in an American Religion Commentary (Version 2) (2007)
• Discoveries of Barbara Anderson (2009)
• I Thought I Knew You An Open Letter From Barbara Anderson to the Watch Tower Society (2011)