He moved to Alabama where he worked as a farm laborer and was expelled from the religion in November 1981 for breaching an edict that Witnesses shun individuals who have formally resigned from the religion. He left the Governing Body in 1980 after a high-level inquiry was launched into allegations that several headquarters staff including Franz were spreading 'wrong teachings'. In 1965 he became a member of the religion's headquarters staff in Brooklyn, New York, where he was assigned to help research and write the Bible encyclopedia Aid to Bible Understanding and in 1971, appointed as a member of the religion's Governing Body. It was translated into Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.įranz spent 43 years as a Jehovah's Witness, serving as a full-time preacher in the United States and a missionary in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The book was updated and revised four times, with the final revisions made in 2004.

The book is a major study and exposé of the internal workings of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society during the 1960s and 1970s. The Duke of Kent and his pregnant Duchess rushed back to England, where their daughter was born at Kensington Palace. Their baby daughter, christened Alexandrina Victoria at the palace, took her place as a potential heir to the throne, after her uncle William IV, any of his surviving children, and her own father.Crisis of Conscience is a biographical book by Raymond Franz, a former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, written in 1983, three years after his expulsion from the Jehovah's Witnesses denomination. William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) abandoned his long-term mistress to marry Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. She had two children from her previous marriage, one of whom was Princess Feodore, who became Victoria’s much-loved half-sister. This prompted a desperate ‘baby race’ among the King’s unmarried brothers to produce a legitimate heir.Įdward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III, hastily married a German widow, Marie Luise Victoire, Dowager Duchess of Leiningen. In 1817, George IV’s only daughter Princess Charlotte had died giving birth to a stillborn son, wiping out two generations of heirs to the throne in one tragic blow. By 1818/19, a succession crisis was looming.

Franz crisis of conscience