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    Published: 2025-12-281
    Vol. 67 No. 2 (2025)

    New Charismatic Churches – characteristics and ecumenical perspectives

    Sławomir Pawłowski

    Ikona ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4918-0658
    Ikona DOI https://doi.org/10.36124/rt.2025.12

    Abstract

    The term ‘New Charismatic Churches’ refers to churches that began to emerge in the mid-1950s as a result of the charismatic movement. A valuable source of information about them is a document published in 2018 by the leaders of these churches entitled The Characteristics of the New Charismatic Churches. It presents the history, terminology, structure, theological orientation and practice of the New Charismatic Churches, as well as their involvement in mission and culture. This article summarises the content of this document, explains some of its elements and adds the commentary from an ecumenical perspective, especially from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church. The networked nature of the New Charismatic Churches, the flexibility of their structures and their vision of ‘unity in the Spirit’ coincide with the requirements of the ‘network society’ and with the new paradigms of Roman Catholic ecumenical principles, as well as with the postulate of making the Church a ‘home and school of communion’. The renewed evangelising mission, the experience of existing unity and the cultivation of relationships — of the Church and within the Church — can be the fruit of an exchange of spiritual gifts between the New Charismatic Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, and even — in an ecumenical perspective — between all followers of Christ.

    Keywords:

    ecumenism, New Charismatic Churches, Pentecostalism, charismatic movement

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    Pawłowski, S. (2025). New Charismatic Churches – characteristics and ecumenical perspectives. Theological Yearbook, 67(2), 245–280. https://doi.org/10.36124/rt.2025.12

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