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The charismatic movement in Christianity is a movement within established or mainstream denominations to adopt beliefs and practices of Charismatic Christianity, with an emphasis on baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the use of spiritual gifts . It has affected most denominations in the United States, and has spread widely across the world.
Modern discussions focus more on the use of spiritual gifts in the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, though this emphasis has been taught in traditions that arose earlier, such as Methodism. Cessationism is a doctrine that spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues , prophecy , and healing ceased with the apostolic age.
Hyper-Grace has mainly arisen out of theologians during the 20th and 21st centuries within the Charismatic movement. The doctrine of Hyper-Grace has caused some controversy within the Charismatic movement. [2] [3] The disagreements between Hyper-Grace theologians and other soteriological views has caused a controversy within Evangelical ...
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) is a movement within the Catholic Church that is part of the wider charismatic movement across historic Christian churches. [1] [2] The Renewal has been described as a "current of grace". [3]
The Shepherding movement (sometimes called the discipleship movement) was an influential and controversial movement within some British, Australian and American charismatic churches. The movement, at some stage was also called the Christian Growth movement. [1] It was set up by Christian leaders as a discipleship network.
The charismatic movement reached Lutherans and Presbyterians in 1962. [9] Among Roman Catholics, it spread around 1967. [10] [3] Methodists became involved in the charismatic movement in the 1970s. [11] Some nondenominational evangelical churches decided to follow this movement and take distance from their Pentecostal conventions. [12]
The British leaders of charismatic restorationism mutually recognised a parallel movement in the United States, centered on the Fort Lauderdale Five; Derek Prince, Don Basham, Bob Mumford, Charles Simpson and Ern Baxter. This movement became known as the Shepherding movement and was the subject of significant controversy in the mid-1970s.
Finally, "C" issues are those on which Reformed, orthodox Christians can disagree, and which do not violate the system of doctrine of the EPC. As stated above, this would include the issues of women's ordination and the charismatic movement, as well as issues such as eschatology (views on the End times), worship preferences, or liturgy.