Remembering the Schism of 1953: The Doctrinal Issue

Earlier editorials called for a denomination-wide remembrance of the schism, informed readers of a fine, new resource for study of the schism, and demonstrated that the dividing of the PRC was indeed schism on the part of the faction that left the PRC (Standard Bearer, April 15, May 1, and May 15, 2003). The controversy that rocked the PRC in the late 1940s and early 1950s culminating in the schism of 1953 was doctrinal. Personality conflicts may have intruded, but the schism was not about...