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by Robert M. Bowman (Author), Paul Carden (Foreword by)
In 1989, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society published a pamphlet entitled Should You
Believe in the Trinity? This pamphlet, of which millions were distributed, remains a resource on
the Jehovah's Witnesses' official website.
Later that year, Robert M. Bowman Jr. published a point-by-point response to the pamphlet. His
book, Why You Should Believe in the Trinity: An Answer to Jehovah's Witnesses, remained in
print for many years. Over the years, the book proved very helpful both to Christians engaging
Jehovah's Witnesses in discussions and to Jehovah's Witnesses transitioning to a sound Christian
faith. At a conference of former Jehovah's Witnesses in 2022, several attendees commented that
they still had their copy of the book and that it had been instrumental in their accepting and
understanding the doctrine of the Trinity.
Dr. Bowman has now brought the book back into print in a second edition. Other than a few
references to the Watchtower's 2013 edition of its New World Translation, the book's citations
are still all from works written or published in 1989 or earlier, and its arguments are almost
entirely as they were in the first edition. Instead of producing a new book, the author has
thoroughly edited it for style, checked its citations for accuracy, clarified various points, and
made a few corrections and other necessary changes. The book thus remains a direct response to
the Jehovah's Witness publication in its 1989 context. Yet it also is of great benefit to today's
readers, not just as a rebuttal to the Watchtower's arguments, but as an accessible introduction to
the positive reasons for believing in the doctrine of the Trinity.
