"The book goes far beyond recounting Franz's personal crisis. It describes the much larger crisis that faces Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide."

-- Christianity Today

"A candid and uniquely informative view of the authority structure and inner workings of the religious organization known as Jehovah's Witnesses.

"... the book is a poignant personal document, reaffirming the value of 'freedom of conscience, ' and inviting renewed attention to the classic problem of how this value is to be kept alive in the face of the perennial resurgence of bureaucratic and authoritarian structures."

-- Dr. Joseph F. Zygmunt, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut

"In past years, much literature (about Jehovah's Witnesses) of varying quality has been published ... with certain exceptions, it has been poor when judged from critical scholarly criteria ... A well-documented work on the controversial movement has finally become available to the Witnesses and the public in general ... No serious scholar or reader, therefore, can now ignore the information presented by Raymond Franz.

"A common fault with authors who feel they have to disclose errors--real or imagined--within a movement they later have been forced to break with, are feelings of hatred and bitterness. You will find little of this in Crisis of Conscience. To the contrary, the calm, objective tone awakens respect and admiration."

-- Dr. Ingemar Linden, Th.D., Dagen, Stockholm, Sweden