| Repeating False Witness Concerning SCP Bankruptcy | A Response to Norman Geisler and Ron Rhodes’ Defense of the “Open Letter” and Critique of the Christian Research Journal’s Reassessment of the Local Churches Read this document as a PDF In an article attacking the Christian Research Institute’s reassessment … | 2010/01/01 | false witness, Neil Duddy, Norman Geisler, Ron Rhodes, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The God-Men | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 |
| Prelude to Conflict | Christian World Liberation Front (CWLF), the New Covenant Apostolic Order (NCAO), Spiritual Counterfeits Project (SCP) & the Local Churches Watchman Nee, Witness Lee, Campus Crusade, and the Church In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the ministry of Watchman Nee … | 2005/12/05 | Brooks Alexander, Campus Crusade, Christian World Liberation Front, CWLF, History, Jack Sparks, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The God-Men, The Mindbenders | 2005-12-05 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak” | From the Preface to The Experts Speak: The Experts Speak is the testimony of five expert witnesses who testified on behalf of Witness Lee and the local churches in Alameda County Superior Court on May 28 and 31, 1985. The … | 1994/11/30 | index, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—Contents | The Testimony of John Gordon Melton, Ph.D. Dr. Melton’s Qualifications His Knowledge of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project His Initial Categorization of the “Local Church”: With the Plymouth Brethren A Brief History of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project A Brief History of … | 1994/11/30 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Eugene Van Ness Goetchius, H. Newton Malony, index, J. Gordon Melton, John A. Saliba, Neil Duddy, Rodney Stark, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—Preface | The Experts Speak is the testimony of five expert witnesses who testified on behalf of Witness Lee and the local churches in Alameda County Superior Court on May 28 and 31, 1985. The final expert, Dr. Edwin S. Gaustad, was … | 1994/11/30 | Die Sonderlehre, Edwin S. Gaustad, Eugene Van Ness Goetchius, H. Newton Malony, J. Gordon Melton, John A. Saliba, Neil Duddy, Rodney Stark, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—Meet the Experts | The text inside brackets ([ ]) updates status of the experts as of April 1, 2015. JOHN GORDON MELTON, Ph.D. Dr. Melton is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church and a member of its Northern Illinois Conference. He … | 1994/11/30 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Eugene Van Ness Goetchius, H. Newton Malony, J. Gordon Melton, John A. Saliba, Rodney Stark, scholars, The Experts Speak | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—Introduction | The Experts Speak records the sworn testimony of the expert witnesses at the trial of Lee v. Duddy, et al in the Superior Court of California in May 1985. Six experts, representing diverse religious backgrounds, were asked to study the … | 1994/11/30 | Die Sonderlehre, Edwin S. Gaustad, Eugene Van Ness Goetchius, H. Newton Malony, J. Gordon Melton, John A. Saliba, Neil Duddy, Rodney Stark, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—John Gordon Melton, Ph.D. | MR. MORGAN: Doctor, I have marked as Exhibit 10 a curriculum vitae, and I will just ask if you can identify that. DR. MELTON: This is the curriculum vitae which I sent to you. MR. MORGAN: Is it up-to-date? DR. … | 1994/11/30 | J. Gordon Melton, mingling, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—John Albert Saliba, Ph.D. | MR. MORGAN: What is your calling? DR. SALIBA: I am a Catholic priest and a member of a religious order known as the Jesuits, and at the moment I hold the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Religious … | 1994/11/30 | John A. Saliba, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—Eugene Van Ness Goetchius, Ph.D., Th.D. | MR. MORGAN: What is your calling? DR. GOETCHIUS: I am an Episcopal priest. I am Professor of Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament and Professor of Biblical Languages at the Episcopal Divinity School, and I also have a lectureship … | 1994/11/30 | Eugene Van Ness Goetchius, mingling, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—Rodney Stark, Ph.D. | MR. MORGAN: You are Dr. Stark, is that right? DR. STARK: Yes. MR. MORGAN: What is your occupation or calling? DR. STARK: I am Professor of Sociology and Comparative Religion at the University of Washington. (Curriculum vitae dated August 1983 … | 1994/11/30 | Neil Duddy, Rodney Stark, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—H. Newton Malony, Ph.D. | MR. MORGAN: What is your business, profession, or calling? DR. MALONY: I’m a clinical psychologist. MR. MORGAN: All right. Let me show you what has been marked as Exhibit 23, and I will ask you if you can identify that? … | 1994/11/30 | H. Newton Malony, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The Experts Speak”—Edwin S. Gaustad, Ph.D. | EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Gaustad did not testify at the trial of Lee vs. Duddy. He did, however, research Witness Lee and the “Local Churches.” The following is a paper he wrote as the conclusion of that study and updated last … | 1994/11/30 | Edwin S. Gaustad, First Amendment, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak, The God-Men | 1994-11-30 00:00:00 |
| Dr. J. Gordon Melton— An Open Letter Concerning the Local Church, Witness Lee and “The God-Men” Controversy | ©1985 by The Institute for the Study of American Religion During the past year, I, like many of you have become concerned about the lawsuit between the Local Church led by Witness Lee and the Spiritual Counterfeits Project (SCP), Neil … | 1985/11/30 | authority, Brooks Alexander, inspiration of the Bible, J. Gordon Melton, mind, mingling, morality, Neil Duddy, Open Letter, propositional revelation, recovery, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, standards of scholarship, The God-Men | 1985-11-30 22:39:33 |
| J. Gordon Melton’s Open Letter Concerning “The God-men” — Index | After the conclusion of The God-Men case (Lee v. Duddy) in 1985, one of the expert witnesses who had testified at that trial, Dr. J. Gordon Melton, the Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and editor … | 1985/11/30 | authority, Brooks Alexander, index, inspiration of the Bible, J. Gordon Melton, local churches, mind, morality, Neil Duddy, Open Letter, propositional revelation, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, standards of scholarship, The God-Men | 1985-11-30 00:00:00 |
| “The God-Men” by Neil T. Duddy and SCP—Judge’s Decision—Index | Index to Material Related to the Statement of Decision of the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Alameda The Statement of Decision of Judge Leon Seyranian of the Superior Court of the State … | 1985/06/27 | Die Sonderlehre, index, judgment, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The God-Men | 1985-06-27 00:00:00 |
| Highlights of Court Decision on “The God-Men” by Neil T. Duddy & SCP | From the Statement of Decision of the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Alameda Uncontested Trial Although the trail was uncontested because the defendants chose not to participate, the legal record contained thousands … | 1985/06/27 | Die Sonderlehre, judgment, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The God-Men | 1985-06-27 00:00:00 |
| Table of Contents of the Court′s Decision on “The God-men” by Neil T. Duddy and SCP | From the Statement of Decision of the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Alameda TABLE OF CONTENTS Judges Comments I. Introduction 1:17—2:7 II. Conclusion 2:7-17 III. Specific Court … | 1985/06/27 | Die Sonderlehre, judgment, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The God-Men | 1985-06-27 00:00:00 |
| Statement of Decision—Lee v. Duddy re: “The God-Men” by Neil Duddy and the SCP | Statement of Decision —The Judgment on The God-Men The following is an accurate rendering of Judge Leon Seyranian’s Statement of Decision in the Lee v. Duddy case concerning The God-Men by Neil Duddy and the SCP. Hyperlinks have been added … | 1985/06/27 | Die Sonderlehre, judgment, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The God-Men | 1985-06-27 00:00:00 |
| Judge’s Comments at the Conclusion of The God-Men Trial | Spoken by Judge Leon Seyranian of the Superior Court of the State of California at the conclusion of the trial concerning The God-Men: Mr. Morgan, I’d like to just make one brief comment: Obviously my decision will be rendered in … | 1985/06/05 | Die Sonderlehre, judgment, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The God-Men | 1985-06-05 00:31:20 |
| “The God-Men” by Neil T. Duddy and SCP – History | In November 1980, Witness Lee, William Freeman, and the Church in Anaheim, Inc. filed suit against Neil Duddy, the Spiritual Counterfeits Project (SCP), and Schwengeler-Verlag over the The God-Men by Neil Duddy and the SCP1 and Die Sonderlehre, a German … | 1980/11/30 | Brooks Alexander, Christian World Liberation Front, CWLF, Die Sonderlehre, index, J. Gordon Melton, judgment, Neil Duddy, SCP, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, The Experts Speak | 1980-11-30 00:00:00 |