ABSTRACT
Many, if not most, of the main denominations of the world church have over the last quarter of a century experienced a new spiritual movement, sometimes called the 'Charismatic Movement', sometimes the 'Charismatic Renewal', sometimes simply 'The Renewal'. There is an alternative technical term on offer. Sometimes the word 'Pentecostal' is employed, instead of 'charismatic'. This adjective, pointing as it does to the coming of the Spirit in power upon the infant church, has a more general connotation than 'charismatic'. The Church of England is hardly precipitate in stopping to look at the spiritual upsurge which has been occurring within its corporate life in these two recent decades. The heirs of the Evangelical Revival and of the Oxford Movement both already know the sterilizing effect of such an attitude, for to them it implies that a particular strand of tradition is but a good 'one-eyed' view, thus denying their claim that their tradition is already 'two-eyed'.
