The Charismatic renewal
Pentecostal and Charismatic · 1960 · Worldwide
From 1960 the Pentecostal experience entered the historic denominations and, from 1967, the Roman Catholic Church, with participants remaining in their churches — a renewal, not a split, and the tree draws it as an overlay, the inverse of every other entry in this file.
The Charismatic renewal was formed in 1960. The Charismatic renewal is a movement within existing churches, not a denomination. The Charismatic renewal's institutional line runs back through Pentecostalism, The Holiness movement, Methodism, Church of England, Roman Catholicism to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.
Between the post-apostolic church and The Charismatic renewal stand 3 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.
At a glance
- Formed
- In 1960
- Region
- Worldwide
- Key figures
- Dennis Bennett, David du Plessis, Michael Harper
- Also known as
- Neo-Pentecostalism; Second wave
What it was organized out of
- Began as a renewal within Pentecostalism. NOT a denomination: Pentecostal spirituality within the historic churches; RENDERING RULE — an overlay band across the mainline branches, never a branch.
Bodies organized out of it or separated from it: Neo-charismatic / independent networks.
On the tree
Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2.
Sources
Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-10.