C. Peter Wagner

Charles Peter Wagner (August 15, 1930 – October 21, 2016) was an American missionary, writer, teacher and founder of several Independent Charismatic Christian organizations.

[7][8] He also founded Reformation Prayer Network, International Coalition of Apostles, Eagles' Vision Apostolic Team, and the Hamilton Group and served as vice president of Global Spheres, Inc.[9] He died in 2016 at the age of 86.

[16] Wagner preached a fivefold ministry view based on Ephesians 4:13, in which apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers are considered legitimate offices of the church.

While mainline Protestant denominations see prophets and apostles as dispensed of within the early period of Christianity, Wagner's spiritual-warfare theology depicted these figures as prayer-warriors actively interceding in the contemporary world.

[17] In Hard-Core Idolatry: Facing the Facts, Wagner asserts that idolizing Catholic saints brings honor to the spirits of darkness, and promotes the burning of their statues in Argentina.

The church "and the adjacent World Prayer Center that was dedicated in 1998 were, for roughly a decade, the epicenter of an ongoing, radical redefinition of Christianity.

I was neither the founder nor a member of any of these movements, I was simply a professor who observed that they were the fastest growing churches in their respective regions and that they had a number of common characteristics.

[23] Religion scholar and theologian Geir Otto Holmås states that the "NAR is not a denomination or an organization with membership lists and an unambiguous doctrinal foundation, but a loose movement which primarily operates through informal or semi-formal channels," continuing on to say that the movement is spread in bits and pieces:[24] religion scholar Matthew D. Taylor terms this "prophetic memes".

Ten years later he published Dominion!, an endorsement of dominion theology which seeks to institute a nation governed by Christians and based on their understandings of biblical law: "the church should be governed primarily by charismatic apostles and prophets, who will lead it into concerted and orchestrated campaigns of strategic-level spiritual warfare, through which the church can transform societies.