Pentecostal
Pentecostal and charismatic
The movement that answered the charismata question in the affirmative, and so made room for everything in the deliverance literature below it.
In its own terms
What this body is doing
Carried as a node with the deliverance ministry beneath it. The corpus's primary texts for this branch are all deliverance manuals from 1973 onward, which describe a practice rather than the movement that produced it — so the movement is recorded as the junction it is, and the positions sit on the practice, where the citations are.
The placement of its parent is an argument rather than a fact and should be read as one: filing it under the English evangelical revival traces the holiness lineage, and a reader who would rather see it as a root of its own has a case.
Where it stands in the tree
Descent
Separated from
Church of England · 1906Not a schism from one body but a revival across many, conventionally dated to Azusa Street. Its Methodist and holiness roots run back through the English evangelical revival, which is why the corpus files it on that branch rather than as a root of its own.
Bodies that separated from it
- Deliverance ministry1973
Not a separation but a specialisation: a practice that grew inside Pentecostal and charismatic churches and spread through paperbacks rather than through synods, which is why it has manuals and no service book.
The same questions asked of every body
What it holds
Are the gifts still given?
Described from a text the corpus holdsContinuing, expected, and available to every believer.
The Azusa periodical reports tongues, healing and deliverance as present facts rather than as claims requiring defence.
The Apostolic Faith (Los Angeles) · 1906–1908
Who may act?
Not established here. The first thing a rite settles, usually in its opening rubric, and the sharpest divide between an office and a gift.
What counts as evidence?
Not established here. Where a tradition decides it is dealing with a spirit rather than an illness, a grief, or nothing at all.
Where is the spirit?
Not established here. All four inherit gospel scenes in which spirits are in people. What each adds beyond that is the largest difference between them.
Whom do the words address?
Not established here. A formal difference a reader can check by counting clauses rather than by weighing tone.
What restraint is written in?
Not established here. Every one of these traditions knows the practice can harm. What each does about that is what popular accounts leave out.
What closes the matter?
Not established here. Whether the encounter ends, and who declares it, separates a rite from an ongoing practice.
This page records what a body holds and where that is written down. It takes no position on whether any of it is true, and nothing here is instruction — the rites are described by what they contain, never as something to follow.