This list includes only people for whom we have documented evidence. It is incomplete, and for some groups the evidence is indirect or fragmentary. We do not necessarily know about or endorse all the doctrines of the people included (after the apostles).
1 | Apostolic church |
2 | Early post-apostolic church, Justin, Irenaeus, Montanists |
3 | Tertullian, Novatian, Sabellians |
4 | Endorsement by Hilary and Ambrose |
12 | Some Waldenses, some Albigenses, some Franciscans, some among other mendicant religious orders |
16 | Some Anabaptists, prophecy movement in England |
17 | Camisards; some Quakers; some Jansenists; some Pietists, including some Moravians |
18 | Some Methodists, some from groups mentioned above |
19 | Some in American revivals and camps, Irvingites, some Plymouth Brethren, some Congregationalists and the "gift people" in New England, Readers in Sweden, some German Lutherans, Irish revivals, some Estonian Baptists, some in the Holiness movement, other Christians |
20 | Welsh revival, Pentecostals, Neo-Pentecostals, Charismatics from every denomination |