11 Facts About Charismatic movement

Charismatic movement in Christianity is a movement within established or mainstream Christian denominations to adopt beliefs and practices of Charismatic Christianity with an emphasis on baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the use of spiritual gifts .

The charismatic movement represented a reversal of this previous pattern as those influenced by Pentecostal spirituality chose to remain in their original denominations.

The Charismatic movement grew to embrace other mainline churches, where clergy began receiving and publicly announcing their Pentecostal experiences.

The Catholic Charismatic movement Renewal began in 1967 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Charismatic movement led to the founding of many covenant communities, such as Sword of the Spirit and Word of God, that are a force of ecumenism in that they have members from many major Christian denominations, such as Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Reformed and Methodists, who live and pray together.

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Charismatic movement termed this movement the Third Wave of the Holy Spirit.

Charismatic movement Christians believe in an experience of baptism with the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit as described in the New Testament are available to contemporary Christians through the infilling or baptism of the Holy Spirit, with or without the laying on of hands.

Many in the charismatic movement deliberately distanced themselves from Pentecostalism for cultural and theological reasons.

The Charismatic movement is based on a belief that these gifts are still available today.

An influential local church in this movement has been London's Holy Trinity Brompton, and Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury since 2013, has a background in charismatic evangelicalism.

Charismatic movement has not exerted the same influence on the Eastern Orthodox Church that it has on other mainstream Christian denominations.