Tradition · 1960

Charismatic

The renewal movement that brought Pentecostal experience, such as baptism in the Spirit, speaking in tongues and healing, into historic churches without members leaving them.

It is usually dated to 1960, when Dennis Bennett, an Episcopal priest in Van Nuys, California, told his congregation he had spoken in tongues. The movement spread through Anglican, Lutheran and other Protestant churches, and in 1967 the Catholic Charismatic Renewal began among students from Duquesne University, later spreading through the Roman Catholic church. Charismatics share the Pentecostal belief in the continuing gifts, but most remain within their own denominations and theology. New independent charismatic churches, such as the Vineyard movement led by John Wimber, also grew out of it.