Lutheran Charismatic Renewal in Norway

The article explores the background and the early years of the Norwegian Lutheran charismatic renewal. It discusses, on the basis of relevant literature and participatory observation, how persons, movements, and theologies influenced the renewal in its initial phase and how it developed in the 1970s under relatively young leaders from a variety of backgrounds into a consistent movement with a unified theology and practice. It presents the defining features of the renewal and the organizational structures that grew out of it and which served to promote it in Norway and abroad. It also briefly deals with how the renewal was received within the Church of Norway (Lutheran) and its organizations for home and foreign mission.