C. Peter Wagner

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Charles Peter Wagner (1930-) is a former professor of Church Growth at Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission. He coined the term Third Wave. He is the founder of Global Harvest Ministries, and co-founder of the World Prayer Center.

Wagner and his wife, Doris, live in Colorado Springs and were attending New Life Church in 2004. However, as of 2006 they were attending Dutch Sheet's "Freedom Church". They have three adult children, and seven grandchildren.

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[edit] Life and ministry

From 1956-1971 the Wagners were missionaries with the South American Mission and Andes Evangelical Mission where they ministered in Bolivia.

In 1971 Wagner became a professor of Church Growth at the School of World Mission (Fuller Theological Seminary). He and Donald McGavran established the school as a popular and influential organisation within the Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic movements internationally.

In 1981 Wagner replaced McGavran as head of the faculty. Wagner retired from his position there in 1998 to focus on his own areas of ministry.

In 1982 Wagner teamed up with John Wimber, the founder of the Vineyard Movement, to create a new course at Fuller called "Signs, Wonders and Church Growth". Since that point, Wagner has been formally associated with Charismatic teaching and theology. Wagner describes himself as a Charismatic Evangelical. During the 1990s he also taught a Sunday School class with a strong focus on the charismatic gifts, known as "120 Fellowship", at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, CA.

[edit] Wagner's paradigm

Wagner proposed what is known as Wagner's paradigm,[1] in which the evangelist attempts to persuade a sinner to do something which he has no desire to do. His nature demands that he rebel against the gospel, rather than respond to it. Only by a regenerating act of the Holy Spirit does that sinner have a change of nature which causes him to see his separation from God due to his sin, then to grasp the work of Christ propitiating for him, so that gladly, he repents and believes in Christ. Just as Ezekiel's valley of dry bones, the sinner is dead to the things of God until animated by the life-giving Spirit in the new birth (compare John 3:1-7 with Ezekiel 37 where "the Spirit" and "the breath" convey the same divine Person and work). Thus, man must embrace the bloodlust and brutality of human nature in a state of nature in order to transcend sin. This discussion of demons by Wagner has been highly controversial.[citation needed]

[edit] Other areas of teaching and controversy

Spiritual Mapping

Identificational repentance

The ministry and role of Apostles and Prophets in the church today

Demonic deliverance

[edit] Education

  • B.S. Rutgers University (summa cum laude), 1952
  • M.Div. Fuller Theological Seminary, 1955
  • Th.M. Princeton Theological Seminary, 1962
  • M.A. Fuller Seminary School of World Mission (Missiology), 1968
  • Ph.D. University of Southern California (Social Ethics), 1977

[edit] Selected works

  • Latin American Theology. Radical or Evangelical,Life Publisher House,1971.[1]
  • Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow, Regal Books, 1979, 1994, 2005. ISBN 0-8307-3697-2
  • Strategies for Church Growth, Regal Books, 1987. ISBN 0-8307-1170-8
  • How to Have a Healing Ministry, Regal Books, 1988. ISBN 0-8307-1297-6
  • The New Apostolic Churches ISBN 0-8307-2137-1
  • Churchquake!, Regal Books, 1999. ISBN 0-8307-1918-0
  • Changing Church, Regal Books, 2004. ISBN 0-8307-3278-0
  • Breaking Strongholds in Your City ISBN 0-8307-1638-6
  • Freedom from the Religious Spirit, Regal Books, 2005. ISBN 0-8307-3670-0
  • Prayer Warrior Series, Regal Books, 1992-1997.
    • Warfare Prayer: How to Seek God's Power and Protection in the Battle to Build His Kingdom ISBN 0-8307-1534-7
    • Prayer shield: How to intercede for pastors, Christian leaders, and others on the spiritual frontlines ISBN 0-8307-1573-8
    • Confronting the Powers: How the New Testament Church Experienced the Power of Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare ISBN 0-8307-1819-2
    • Praying With Power : How to Pray Effectively and Hear Clearly from God ISBN 0-8307-1919-9
  • Dominion:How Kingdom Action Can Change the World, Chosen Books, 2008.

ISBN: 978-0-8007-9435-4

[edit] Relevant Biographical Source

  • George M. Marsden, Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1987), pp. 292-295. ISBN 0-8028-3642-9

[edit] Critical Assessments

  • Paul G. Hiebert, "Biblical Perspectives on Spiritual Warfare," in Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994), pp. 203-215. ISBN 0-8010-4394-8
  • A. Scott Moreau, "Religious Borrowing as a Two-Way Street: An introduction to animistic tendencies in the Euro-North American context," in Christianity and the Religions, Edward Rommen and Harold Netland, eds. (Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1995), pp. 166-183. ISBN 0-87808-376-6
  • Robert J. Priest, Thomas Campbell and Bradford A. Mullen, "Missiological Syncretism: The New Animistic Paradigm," in Spiritual Power and Missions, Edward Rommen, ed., (Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1995), pp. 143-168.
  • Chuck Lowe, Territorial Spirits And World Evangelisation? Isbn: 185792399-5,Isbn 13: 9781857923995 Mentor, http://www.christianfocus.com/item/show/793/-

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Journey through the Church growth movement. C.P.Wagner (2003). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.