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Formerly the Worldwide Church of God, founded by Herbert W. Armstrong
Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God promoted a tightly woven set of doctrines centered on . These teachings also included distinctive beliefs about prophecy, the afterlife, church exclusivi...
The Worldwide Church of God’s (WCG) doctrinal reforms in the 1990s transformed it from a sect widely described as cult-like into a body that mainstream evangelical organizations could accept, culminat...
Herbert W. Armstrong’s core doctrines labeled heretical by mainstream Christianity and many scholars were a cluster of interrelated teachings: a non‑Trinitarian “God‑Family” theology and denial of the...
Mainstream Christian theologians most frequently singled out Herbert W. Armstrong’s rejection of the Trinity, his British‑Israelism (Anglo‑Israel teaching), and his legalistic Sabbath/Old Testament ob...
Herbert W. Armstrong’s ministry generated persistent controversy: critics document hundreds of failed predictions and doctrinal revisions that they say mark him as a , while defenders argue his statem...
The Worldwide Church of God (WCG), rebranded Grace Communion International (GCI) after doctrinal reforms, fractured into dozens—if not hundreds—of offshoots; the most prominent include the United Chur...
Herbert W. Armstrong placed British Israelism at the theological center of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG), using the claim that Anglo‑Saxon peoples were the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Is...
The Worldwide Church of God (WCG), founded by Herbert W. Armstrong in the 1930s, promoted a distinct blend of teachings—commonly called Armstrongism—that emphasized observance of the seventh‑day Sabba...
Herbert W. Armstrong was widely criticized by many mainstream Christian commentators and organizations for doctrines that diverged sharply from orthodox Christianity—especially his non‑Trinitarian Chr...
After Herbert W. Armstrong’s death in 1986 the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) experienced a swift and comprehensive transformation: leadership under Joseph W. Tkach initiated doctrinal revisions that m...
Herbert W. Armstrong promoted a cluster of doctrines—denial of the Trinity, a “God Family” that includes humans, Anglo‑Israelism, strict Sabbatarianism and feast observance, works‑oriented soteriology...
The United Church of God (UCG) explicitly traces its "Fundamentals of Belief" back to the fundamentals drafted by Herbert W. Armstrong for the Radio/Worldwide Church of God, and UCG leaders have said ...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught a nontrinitarian “God‑family” theology that pictured God as a family presently consisting of the Father and the Son, denied the Holy Spirit as a distinct Person, and taught...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught Saturday Sabbath observance, Levitical dietary rules and the seven Mosaic “Festivals of God,” and the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) institutionalized those practices . Afte...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught that New Testament Christians must keep Mosaic laws—Sabbath, dietary rules, tithing, and the annual Levitical festivals like Passover and Tabernacles—and he rejected mainst...
Herbert W. Armstrong taught a non‑Trinitarian theology that denied the personhood of the Holy Spirit, promoted a “God Family” concept rather than a three‑person Godhead, and explicitly rejected Trinit...
Herbert W. Armstrong enforced a set of distinctive doctrines — non‑Trinitarian theology (a “God‑family” concept), British‑Israelism, Sabbath and Jewish festival observance with Old‑Testament legalism,...
Herbert W. Armstrong centralized doctrinal authority in his person and publications, positioning himself as the church’s primary interpreter of Scripture and shaping WCG practice—Sabbatarianism, Jewis...
Herbert W. Armstrong founded the movement that became the Worldwide Church of God, beginning as a radio ministry commonly dated to the early 1930s and later reorganized and renamed to Worldwide Church...
The organization long known as the Worldwide Church of God now operates under the name after a multidecade doctrinal and organizational transformation that culminated in an official name change in 200...