Neo-revelationism is a term for the beliefs of religious groups, especially Christian or Christianity-derived who claim direct revelation beyond claims of divine inspiration associated with the Christian Bible proper, but the term is also applicable relative to the Baháʼí Faith, and Ahmadiyya movement relative to mainstream Islam, and to Messiah claimants in a context of Judaism.
Some Protestant Reformers held different views, and taught that the miraculous gifts (including prophecy) ended with the death of the Apostles or soon thereafter.
This doctrine, called cessationism, is still held by conservative Evangelicals (especially some Baptists and Calvinists[citation needed]), who believe that the Bible is the final and complete revelation of God.
There are numerous examples of such instances in Christian mysticism, during the medieval period and in the modern era e.g. Jacob Boehme (1575–1624) and Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), and later Jakob Lorber (1800–1864), Gottfried Mayerhofer (1807–1877), Bertha Dudde (1891–1965) and others.
Proponents of neo-revelationism point to John 16:12–14, taking "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now" as an announcement of continued revelation outside of the biblical canon.