Charismatic movement

===Lutheranism===
Larry Christenson, a Lutheran theologian based in San Pedro, California, did much in the 1960s and 1970s to interpret the charismatic movement for Lutherans. A very large annual conference was held in Minneapolis during those years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Strand |first=Paul |title=Charismatic Renewal Pioneer Larry Christenson Dies from Icy Fall |url=https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2017/december/charismatic-renewal-pioneer-larry-christenson-dies-from-icy-fall |access-date=December 4, 2019 |website=CBN News |date=December 28, 2017 |archive-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204103903/https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2017/december/charismatic-renewal-pioneer-larry-christenson-dies-from-icy-fall |url-status=live }}</ref>  Some Lutheran charismatics in the US formed the Alliance of Renewal Churches. [[Richard A. Jensen]]'s ''Touched by the Spirit'' published in 1974, played a major role of the Lutheran understanding to the charismatic movement. Another Lutheran charismatic leader is [[Morris George Cornell Vaagenes|Morris Vaagenes]]. In Finland the emergence of charismatic congregations has reversed, in some places, a decline in attendance of Lutheran congregations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haapalainen |first=Anna |date=May 2015 |title=An emerging trend of charismatic religiosity in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland |url=https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/67568/27864 |journal=Approaching Religion |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=98–113 |doi=10.30664/ar.67568 |access-date=December 4, 2019|doi-access=free }}</ref>