Pentecostal
New Apostolic Reformation
The only body on this chart whose governing claim is that the apostolic office is currently filled. That claim is what licenses the warfare practice, which is why it belongs on the authority axis and not only on 'where'.
In its own terms
What this body is doing
Wagner named this in 2001 for a pattern he had been describing since the late 1980s: churches ordered under apostles and prophets held to be given to the church now, in networks of relationship rather than in denominations with constitutions. The corpus already held the practice texts — the territorial spirits material sits in the deliverance sources — and had nowhere to file the government that authorises them.
That is the connection worth drawing out, because popular accounts almost always separate the two. Strategic-level spiritual warfare — naming the spirit held to hold authority over a city or a nation, and addressing it in organised prayer — is not a technique that anyone might pick up. It is claimed as the proper work of an apostolic office, and the argument for the practice rests on the argument for the office. A body that does not hold the office is not making a smaller version of the same claim.
Where it stands in the tree
Descent
Separated from
Vineyard and the Third Wave · 2001A name given by an observer to something he also helped organise: networks under living apostles and prophets, replacing denominational government rather than separating from it.
The same questions asked of every body
What it holds
Are the gifts still given?
Not established here. Not an exorcism question, and the one that decides the rest. A body holding the gifts ceased with the apostles has no room for a deliverance ministry; a body holding they continue has no reason to license one.
Who may act?
Described from a text the corpus holdsAn apostle, or those under apostolic covering — this is not everyone's work.
Strategic-level warfare is presented as office work rather than as the common inheritance of every believer, which puts this body nearer the licensed end of the axis than the deliverance ministry it grew out of.
Territorial Spirits & Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare · 1989-1996
What counts as evidence?
Not established here. Where a tradition decides it is dealing with a spirit rather than an illness, a grief, or nothing at all.
Where is the spirit?
Described from a text the corpus holdsOver cities, regions and nations, as well as in people.
The territorial claim draws its warrant from the princes of Persia and Greece in Daniel 10, and is the furthest extension of 'where' anything on this chart makes.
Territorial Spirits & Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare · 1989-1996
Whom do the words address?
Described from a text the corpus holdsThe territorial spirit, named, in organised corporate prayer.
Naming is integral rather than incidental: the practice identifies the spirit held to hold a place before addressing it, which is what 'strategic-level' means in the literature.
Territorial Spirits & Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare · 1989-1996
What restraint is written in?
Not established here. Every one of these traditions knows the practice can harm. What each does about that is what popular accounts leave out.
What closes the matter?
Not established here. Whether the encounter ends, and who declares it, separates a rite from an ongoing practice.
What happened afterwards
Reception
Disputed as a label by many of the leaders it is applied to, who describe themselves as apostolic without accepting the name of a movement. The corpus carries it as Wagner defined it and dates the definition, rather than deciding who belongs inside it.
This page records what a body holds and where that is written down. It takes no position on whether any of it is true, and nothing here is instruction — the rites are described by what they contain, never as something to follow.