Watchtower's "Trinity" Booklet References

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Section 1: Should You Believe It?
*1. Arthur Weigall, The Paganism in Our Christianity (New York/London: G. P. Put
nam's Sons, 1928), 197.
2. George Brantl, ed. Catholicism (New York, NY: George Braziller, 1961), 78.
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Section 2: How Is the Trinity Explained?
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XV (New York, NY: Encyclopedia Press, 1912),
47.
4. Heraklion, Crete, Greece, court decision 87/1986, April 7, 1986, pp. 17, 19.
5. Athanasios S. Frangopoulos, Our Orthodox Christian Faith, 3rd ed. (Athens, Gr
eece: Brotherhood of Theologians, 1985), 71.
6. New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XIV (Washington, DC: Catholic University of A
merica, 1967), 304.
7. The Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 27 (New York, NY: Americana Corporation, 197
7), 116.
8. GRIT: Stories of American Life and Traditions, (newspaper; Williamsport, PA):
October 30, 1983, 12.
9. The New Yorker (magazine; New York, NY) March 23, 1987, 64.
10. L'Osservatore Romano, (newspaper; Vatican City): August 10, 1987, 4.
11. Lyman Abbott, ed. A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge (New York, NY: Harper
& Brothers, 1875), 944.
12. New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XIV, 304.
13. Joseph A. Bracken, What Are They Saying About the Trinity? (New York, NY: Pa
ulist Press, 1979), 1, 3.
14. Hans Kng, Christianity and the World Religions: Paths of Dialogue with Islam,
Hinduism, and Buddhism (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986), 113.
15. The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XV, 47.
16. Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler, Theological Dictionary (New York, NY: He
rder and Herder, 1965) p. 470.
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Section 3: Was It Clearly a Bible Teaching?
17. The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, vol. 3 (Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity P
ress, 1980), 1597.
18. The New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XIV, 304.
19. The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XV, 47.
20. Michael O'Carroll, Trinitas: A Theological Encyclopedia of the Holy Trinity
(Wilmington, DL: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1987), 208.
21. Mircea Eliade, ed. The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 15, (New York, NY: Mac
millan, 1987), 54.
23. The New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XIV, 306.
24. Edmund J. Fortman, The Triune God (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1972)
, xv, 8-9.
25. The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 15, 54.
26. The Triune God, xv, xvi, 16.
27. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition. vol. 11 (Chicago, IL: Encycl
opaedia Britannica, 1985), 928.
28. Bernhard Lohse, A Short History of Christian Doctrine (Philadelphia, PA: For
tress Press, 1966) p. 38.
29. Colin Brown, ed. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology,
vol. 2, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1976,) 84.
30. E. Washburn Hopkins, Origin and Evolution of Religion (New Haven, CT: Yale U
niversity Press, 1923), 336.
31. Paganism in Our Christianity, 197.
32. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, vol. 2, 84.
33. The Paganism in Our Christianity, 198.
34. James Hastings, ed. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. XII, (New Yor
k, NY: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1922), 461.
35. New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XIV, 299.
36. Alvan Lamson, The Church of the First Three Centuries (Boston, MA: Horace B.
Fuller, 1869), 124-125.
37. Ibid., 70-71.
38. Ibid., 103.
39. Ibid., 106-108.
40. Ibid., 180.
41. Ibid, 182-183.
42. Ibid., 56-57.
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Section 4: How Did the Trinity Doctrine Develop?
43. Henry Chadwick, The Early Church (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 196
7), 122, 124.
44. Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 6, 386.
45. Short History of Christian Doctrine, 51.
46. New Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 11, 689.
47. The Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 27, 117.
48. Catholicism, 69-70.
49. New Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 1, 664-665; History of Dogma, vol. 4 [195
8 edition], 136.
50. Origin and Evolution of Religion, 339.
51. Encyclopedia Americana, 294.
52. Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Part III, Caesar and Christ (New Yor
k, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1944), 595.
53. Siegfried Morenz, Egyptian Religion (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1
973) 255.
54. Ibid., 257.
55. Edward Gibbon, History of Christianity (New York, NY: Peter Eckler, 1891), x
vi.
56. Dictionary of Religious Knowledge, 944.
57. Paganism in Our Christianity, 197.
58. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. XII, 458.
59. Maurice Lachatre, Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, vol. 1 (Paris, n.d.), 1467
, English translation in Watchtower, August 1, 1984, 21.
60. Samuel Macauley Jackson, ed. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious
Knowledge, vol. IX (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1957), 91.
61. Church of the First Three Centuries [1860 edition], 34.
62. Adolf Harnack, Outlines of the History of Dogma (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1
957), 194.
63. Ibid.
64. Andrews Norton, A Statement of Reasons, 5th edition (Boston, MA: American Un
itarian Association, 1872), 94, 104.
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Section 5: What Does the Bible Say About God and Jesus?
65. Levi Leonard Paine, A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism (N
ew York, NY: Riverside Press, 1900), 4.
66. Ibid.
67. William Smith, A Dictionary of the Bible, revised and edited by F. N. Peloub
et and M. A. Peloubet (McLean, VA: MacDonald Publishing, 1948), 220.
68. The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vol. XXI (1905):
208; Quoted in Insight on the Scriptures, vol. 1 (Watchtower Bible and Tract Soc
iety, 1988), 968.
69. Ibid.
70. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 150th Anniversary Edition (Springfield,
MA: C. & G. Merriam Company, 1981), 99.
71. W. E. Vine, Vine's Expositor Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Old
Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1981), 140.
72. James Strong, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (New York, NY: Ab
ingdon Press, 1890), 20, 49.
73. Edward Robinson, A Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament (New York,
NY: Harner & Brothers, 1850), 471.
74. Gerhard Kittel, ed. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, vol. IV (Gr
and Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1967), 738, 740.
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Section 6: God Always Superior to Jesus
75. G.H. Boobyer, "Jesus as 'Theos' in the New Testament," Bulletin of the John
Rylands Library 50 (1967-68): 258.
76. Ibid., 258-259.
77. Ibid., 251.
78. Ibid., 250.
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Section 7: The Holy Spirit: God's Active Force
79. Our Orthodox Christian Faith, 71.
80. The Triune God, 9.
81. A. T. Robertson, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, vol. I (New
York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1930), 245.
82. The New American Bible (New York, NY: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1970), 1
28.
83. Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 15, 49.
84. The Triune God, 6, 15.
85. New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 14, 574.
86. Ibid., 575.
87. William E. Addis and Thomas Arnold, A Catholic Dictionary, revised by T. B.
Scannell, P. E. Hallett, Gordon Albion and members of staff of St. John's Semina
ry (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited,1960), 810.
88. Ibid., 812.
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Section 8a: What About Trinity "Proof Texts"?
88. New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XIV, 306.
90. John McClintock and James Strong, Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and E
cclesiastical Literature, vol. X, (New York: Harper, 1883-1887; Reprint edition,
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1981), 552.
91. Ibid.
92. Ibid.
93. John Calvin, Commentary on the Gospel According to John, trans. by William P
ringle, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1847), 417.
94. The Holy Bible, Douay Version.
95. The Holy Bible, King James Version.
96. George R. Noyes, The New Testament: Translated from the Greek Text of Tische
ndorf (Boston, MA: American Unitarian Association, 1869), 432.
97. Friedrich Pfaffllin, Das Neue Testament in Der Scrache Von Heute (Verlegt Be
i Eugen Salzer in Heilbronn, 1965), 381.
98. Arnoldo Mondadori, ed. La Bibbia Concordata (Societa Biblica Italiana, 1968)
1938.
99. Good News Bible, The Bible in Today's English Version.
100. New Jerusalem Bible.
101. Ralph P. Martin, The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians (London: Tyndale Pr
ess, 1959), 102.
103. A. A. Kennedy, The Expositor's Greek Testament: The Epistle to the Philippi
ans, vol. 3. Edited by Robertson Nicoll (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1901; Repri
nt edition, Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans, 1990).
104. The Holy Bible, Authorised King James Version.
105. Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, vol. 1 (Oxford University Pr
ess, 1941), 215.
106. Noyes, New Testament.
107. The Bible, An American Translation.
108. Jrg Zink, Das Neue Testament, (Stuttgart: Krenzverlag, 1965), 230.
109. The Living Bible Paraphrased.
110. The Simple English Bible, New Testament.
111. The Living Bible Paraphrased.
Section 8b: What About Trinity "Proof Texts"?
112. The Holy Bible, King James Version.
113. Philip B. Harner, "Qualitative Anarthrous Predicate Nouns: Mark 15:39 and J
ohn 1:1," Journal of Biblical Literature 92 (1973), 85.
114. The New Testament in an Improved Version, Upon the basis of Archbishop Newc
ome's New Translation: With A Corrected Text (London: Richard Taylor and Company
, 1808).
115. Benjamin Wilson, The Emphatic Diaglott (New York, NY: Fowler & Wells, 1864)
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116. La Bible du Centenaire, L'Evangile selon Jean, translation by Maurice Gogue
l, 1928.
117. The Bible, An American Translation.
118. Ludwig Thimme, Das Neue Testament, 1946, 219.
119. New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, 1950.
120. Tomanek Translation of the New Testament, by James L. Tomanek.
121. Siegfried Schulz, Das Evangelium nach Johannes (Gttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupr
echt, 1975).
122. Johannes Schneider, Das Evanqelium nach Johannes, 1978.
123. Harner, "Qualitative Anarthrous Predicate Nouns," JBL 92 (1973), 85.
124. Ibid., 87.
125. Joseph Henry Thayer's Personal Copy of Griesbach's Greek New Testament Text
, 1809, with Thayer's handwritten comments on John 1:1 interleaved.
126. John L. McKenzie, Dictionary of the Bible (New York, NY: Macmillan, 1965),
317.
127. E. C. Colwell, "A Definite Rule for the Use of the Article in the Greek New
Testament," Journal of Biblical Literature, 52 (1933): 20.
128. Ibid.
129. Boobyer, "Jesus as 'Theos,' BJRL, 253.
130. Ibid.
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Section 9: Worship God on His Terms
131. The Amplified Bible.
132. New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. X, 21.
133. Ibid., vol. IX, 359.
134. Christianity and the World Religions, 113.
135. TIME (magazine; New York, NY: Time Inc.): December 16, 1946, 64.