Berlin Declaration (1909)

The Berlin Declaration of 1909, in German the Berliner Erklarung, was a theological statement issued by fifty-six leading Evangelical theologians in Germany condemning the German Pentecostal movement that had begun two years earlier in Kassel, declaring that the movement was not from above but from below. It named Jonathan Paul as the movement's leader, though it is not clear that Paul saw himself in that role, and it remained a point of division between German Pentecostal and non-Pentecostal Protestants until it was formally revoked by the Gnadauer Gemeinschaftsverband in a statement of January 2009, a step widely seen as a major move toward reconciliation between the two groups. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/