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51. Telephone conversation with Dr. Philip Abramowitz of January, 1987.
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54. Ibid.
55. Ibid., pp. 14-15.
56. Letter from Father James LeBar of January 25, 1987.
57. Letter from Father Walter Debold, January, 1987.
58. Letter from Ms. Carol Giambalvo, January, 1987.
59. Loc. Cit. ,LeBar Letter, Op. Cit.
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excessive practices that violate moral and ethical codes. If there is no safeguard
through accountability, an individual leader can be mesmerized by success, adulation
of the community, or other factors and use more and more controlling means to rule
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63. Enroth, Ronald, “Of Cults and Evangelicals: Labeling and Lumping,” Cultic Studies
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similarities that seem to characterize the two camps. Cult conversion and Christian
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64. “A Statement of Evaluation Regarding Maranatha Campus Ministries/Maranatha
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of individuals, social groups, and every human power, so that, within due limits,
nobody is forced to go against his conviction in religious matters in private or in public,
alone or in association with others. The Council further declares that the right to
religious freedom is based on the very dignity of the human person as known by the
revealed word of God and by reason itself.” (LeBar, “Evangelization and Freedom,”
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70. Gruen, Op. Cit., p. 303.
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96. Op. Cit.
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