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[Footnotes]

1 Russell 1966, 1967a, 1967b, 1974, 1982a, 1982b, 1988, 1989, 1990.
2 Shupe and Conrad (1985).
5 Küng (1983)
6 RLDS dissent is William D. Russell’s "Defenders of the Faith: Varieties of RLDS Dissent," Sunstone, June 1990, pp. 14-19.
7 Book of Discipline 1988, par. 527.2

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