One of the reasons that this theory of discontinuity of some of the gifts has gained a degree of support is that not much evidence to the contrary has been gleaned from history. Scholars more favorable to spiritual gifts, in fact, had not aggressively challenged Warfield on his own intellectual level. In part, until recently, scholarly contributions from Pentecostals had not been forthcoming, because the early Pentecostals had developed a strong anti-intellectualism. Ministers who set themselves