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Raising the Ruins: The Fight to Revive the Legacy of Herbert W. Armstrong
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.9
EAN: 9780974550718
ISBN: 097455071X
Label: Philadelphia Church of God, Inc.
Manufacturer: Philadelphia Church of God, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 435
Publication Date: October 30, 2006
Publisher: Philadelphia Church of God, Inc.
Studio: Philadelphia Church of God, Inc.
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It is the Most Astonishing Story in Modern Religion
What happened to the global humanitarian empire of Herbert W. Armstrong, one of the foremost religious leaders of the 20th century?
Here is the shocking, gripping untold story of the doctrinal hijacking and spiritual destruction of the Worldwide Church of God after the death of its founder.
It is the story of a cabal of leaders who destroyed Mr. Armstrong's work, sold the church's assets and hoarded the money.
It is the story of the life-and-death, six-year court battle that ensued when a faith-filled few held fast to his mission and sought to defend his legacy by Raising the Ruins.
Herbert W. Armstrong was the world's leading televangelist and one of the most prominent religious leaders of the 20th century, watched, read and followed by millions worldwide. But his legacy of Bible-based humanitarianism came under attack after he died. The cabal of leaders who took control of the church he founded, after pledging to "follow in his footsteps," methodically destroyed all he had built. Those who would stop them were silenced or excommunicated.
Had it happened in the corporate world, the CEOs and executives responsible for hijacking a corporation and robbing its investors would have been fired, if not prosecuted in a court of law.
Never before has this shocking story been told in such riveting detail. Drawing upon official reports, internal memos, court depositions and personal interviews, Stephen Flurry exposes the depth of corruption and deceit that was "Tkachism" - the administration of Joseph Tkach, who succeeded Mr. Armstrong as pastor general of the Worldwide Church of God.
In this book you will learn:
*How Tkach's men altered doctrines under Mr. Armstrong's nose even before he died.
*How the Tkach transformation was driven from the start by an agenda that even shocked most of the top ministers.
*How early on, Tkachism brazenly denied its radical changes before the church members.
*How Tkachism slashed media operations under the pretense of "wise stewardship"--while income soared at a record $1 billion in five years.
*How Tkachism shamefully forced out the very members whose contributions had built the multi-million dollar empire.
*How Tkach's men told church members the message of Mr. Armstrong's magnum opus, Mystery of the Ages, was still official, while they secretly trashed 120,000 copies of the book.
*How Tkach Jr. considered it his "Christian duty" to stamp out Mr. Armstrong's writings.
*How Tkach Jr. nearly achieved that goal in a six-year legal battle, but then, for fear of being exposed, surrendered.
*How the marvelous wonder of Mr. Armstrong's work is being raised from the ruins.
Worldwide Church of God leaders today present themselves to the mainstream evangelical world as a band of courageous truth-lovers who sacrificed everything to follow Jesus Christ. The stubborn facts of what they did, however, tell a far more sinister story - a story they have done their utmost to keep buried. This book exhumes those facts and exposes them to the furious light of day, as they should have been all along, for your scrutiny.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Hip Hip Hooray Philadelphia!
Reviews got me onto melee between
good guys for a good cause and those
that were very snakes for their cause.
I read reviews for all of them and
Raising the Ruins came tops and
I read the book.
Fine reading and print easy on eye,
it took me a day for the first run.
Herbert W Armstrong admirers
are as true to his memory as ever!
Rating:  - Raising the Ruins . . . OF MORDOR!!!
Is it possible that people actually yearn for the return of such mind-control, and actually venerate the writings of such an ignorant scoundrel?
Rating: - Brave Men Move Cult to Christinanty
Make no mistake the only legacy of Herbert Armstrongs was to create one of the largest cults of the 20th century. This cult was based on his personalty and great media marketing he created. The thrust of this book needs to be reversed and the men that took over after Mr. Armstrongs death need to be lauded as heros for their stand for Christ. These men moved this cult from the darkness into the light. These earnest men recognized that the interpertations of Mr Armstrong concerning the bible did ... Read More
Rating: - A good work on the subject, given the competition
A large and fairly well-documented work on the topic. Given that the author does have a vested interest in promoting his OWN splinter group, the reader does have to be very careful in separating the factual accounts from the glossed-over "spins". However, since the other two major works on the Armstrong group are Tkach's "Transformed by Truth" and Feazell's "Liberation of the Worldwide Church of God", both of which are just as compromised by agendas, this book is no less reliable. Good information here, ... Read More
Rating:  - Raising the Ruins of Pervert W. Armstrong
"As a former PCG member, I remember the whole battle over Armstrong's writings and the rhetoric Gerald and Stephen Flurry used to tell their membership. Needless to say, when I started reading this book, I felt like I had already read it multiple times. I already knew everything it said.
The one thing that should be made perfectly clear to casual readers who do not subscribe to Armstrong's teachings after reading this book is that the PCG does not worship God, they worship Herbert Armstrong. ... Read More
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