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The charismatic movement, with its emphasis on Spirit baptism and the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, has become one of the most prominent features of twentieth-century Christianity. In Baptism and Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Dr. Unger traces the doctrine of the baptism of the Spirit through the New Testament. In the final two chapters he puts the doctrine into its proper place with...

THE RISE OF CHARISMATIC CHRISTIANITY 1. Pentecostalism has its roots in early Methodism of the eighteenth century and the revivalism of Charles G. Finney in the first half of the nineteenth century “Eighteenth-century Methodism,” as Frederick Dale Bruner correctly points out, “is the mother of the nineteenth-century American holiness movement which, in turn, bore twentieth-century Pentecostalism.”5 John Wesley taught a definite second work of grace distinct from the remission of sins.6 By laying special
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