continuationism/charismaticism
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This is Greek to me. Can someone explain the doctrinal issue?
Continuationism is the belief that the “gifts of the Holy Spirit”, like healing, speaking in tongues, prophecy, continue to be poured out on the church to this day. This is contrasted with Cessationism, which is the belief that those gifts died out at some point in the past, usually posited to be around the time that the last of the first generation apostles and disciples died.
Charismaticism is the extreme form of continuationism, since it posits that these gifts not only continue to exist in the church, but that they are available to ANY believer, and charismatic churches encourage all members to freely exercise them, usually quite publicly and dramatically.
The article itself might explain, and the blog author has also written on these issues, too.
I think someone here on FR posted a defn, too.
Best wishes!