Neo-charismatic movement Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==History== [[File:C. Peter Wagner.jpg|thumb|[[C. Peter Wagner]] is a leader among Neo-charismatics in the U.S., and is known for naming the Neo-charismatic movement the "third wave" of Charismatic Christianity.]] The "first wave" of Charismatic Christianity is Pentecostalism, which originated in Kansas, US in 1901, and later spread to Texas, Los Angeles, and then to other countries.<ref name="NIDPCM-2003">{{cite book | editor1-first = Stanley M. | editor1-last = Burgess | editor2-first = Eduard M. | editor2-last = van der Maas | title = [[The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements]] | place = Grand Rapids | publisher = Zondervan | year = 2003 | isbn=0-310-22481-0|oclc=62596740}}</ref>{{rp|14–15}} Pentecostals formed their own churches and organizations, but by the 1960s their emphasis on the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and signs and wonders began to influence mainline Protestant denominations and the "second wave," or the charismatic movement, began.{{r|NIDPCM-2003|p=15}} The Neo-charismatic movement, dubbed the "third wave", dates from the early 1980s and was a result of the growth of Pentecostal experiences among independent and indigenous Christian groups. Although the Neo-charismatic movement emerged in the 1980s, many churches in Africa were already exhibiting Neo-charismatic tendencies in the early twentieth century as some churches combined indigenous [[Religious cosmology|cosmologies]] with what are called the [[gifts of the Holy Spirit]].{{r|NIDPCM-2003|p=15}} The greatest concentration of Neo-charismatic churches is found in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.{{r|NIDPCM-2003|pp=17–18}} In some regions, especially Africa and Latin America, Neo-charismatics are sometimes condemned by Pentecostals and Charismatics for their spiritual practices or for combining local cosmologies with Christian beliefs.{{r|NIDPCM-2003|p=15}} [[File: New Creation Church Service.jpg|thumb|[[Worship service (evangelicalism)|Worship service]] at [[New Creation Church]] in [[Singapore]], 2015.]] [[C. Peter Wagner|Peter Wagner]], who originally called this form of Christianity the "Third Wave" and is a theoretician of the Church Growth Movement, advocated for the principle of spiritual warfare against demons through his book ''Spiritual Power and Church Growth''.<ref>Yannick Fer, La théologie du "combat spirituel": Globalisation autochtonie et politique en milieu pentecôtiste/charismatique, in J. Garcia-Ruiz et P. Michel (eds.), ''Néo-pentecôtismes'', Labex Tepsis, pp. 52–64, 2016.</ref><ref>Wagner, Peter C. ''Spiritual Power and Church Growth'', Altamonte Springs, Fl. Strang Communications, US, 1986. {{ISBN|0930525043}}</ref> [[John Wimber]], who founded the [[Association of Vineyard Churches]] in 1982, put forward the principle of "miraculous healing" as an element of the Christian life in his book ''Power Healing''. The current of "power evangelism" was developed through the work of John Wimber and publicized through his book ''Power Evangelism''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wimber|first=John|title=Power Evangelism|publisher=Harper & Row Publishers|year=1986|isbn=0060695323|location=San Francisco}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pratt|first=Thomas D.|date=Spring 1991|title=The Need to Dialogue: A Review of the Debate on the Controversy of Signs, Wonders, Miracles and Spiritual Warfare Raised in the Literature of the Third Wave Movement|journal=Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies|volume=13|pages=7–32|doi=10.1163/157007491X00024}}</ref> Together, Wagner and Wimber taught a course on Neo-charismatic spiritual gifts called "Signs, Wonders, and Church Growth" at [[Fuller Theological Seminary]] for four years starting in 1982.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wagner|first=C. Peter|title=The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit|publisher=Vine Books|year=1988|isbn=0892836016|location=Ann Arbor: MI|page=24}}</ref> George Otis Junior is one of the originators of "spiritual mapping," which is a practice among some third wave adherents that includes uncovering the histories of buildings and geographical locations to understand how those histories might be contributing to demonic possession in the present.{{r|McCloud 2015|p=51}} In 2002, some 19,000 denominations or groups, with approximately 295 million individual adherents, were identified as Neo-charismatic.{{r|NIDPCM-Neocharismatics}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page