Talk:Charismatic movement

I don't like the way the article seems to suggest that before the pentecostals there were no charismatics... This is clearly false, as the Roman Catholics used such a view point to defend some of there doctrines during the middle-ages (which they have now dropped/changed). The idea of the 'laying on of hands' for healing and imparting spiritual gifts etc was within high churches for quite a while, it is just that the pentecostal churches were much 'louder' about it, and thus most people assciate charismatics with protestant low-churches. Whereas at the time of the reformation it was the established RC church that was charismatic, and certain protestants who where sensationalist....

--TM 12:33, 27 May 2006 (UTC)