“Charismatics”: Renewal in Major Protestant Denominations Vinson Synan ONE OF THE SURPRISES of the renewal was that it came first to the more sacramental and traditional Protestant churches rather than the more evangelical and fundamentalist denominations. Beginning among Episcopalians in 1960, the movement made early inroads among Presbyterians, Lutherans, and most surprising of all, Roman Catholics. Some of the more traditional Protestant churches had already had skirmishes with Pentecostals in