Pentecostal
Oneness Pentecostal
A separation caused by a doctrine on this matrix rather than by authority, which is the case this section has always been thinnest on.
In its own terms
What this body is doing
Within a decade of Azusa the revival divided over the Trinity, and it divided over a baptismal formula first: a preacher's argument that the apostles baptised in the name of Jesus and that Matthew's threefold name must therefore be a title for the one name. The trinitarian majority answered it in council, which is what the Assemblies of God statement of 1916 was for.
Carried here for what it demonstrates about the chart rather than for a demonology of its own. Nearly every edge on this tree is an argument about authority; this one is an argument about God, decided by reading two verses against each other, and it produced a body of millions.
Where it stands in the tree
Descent
Separated from
Pentecostal and charismatic · 1916The New Issue: whether baptism is administered in the name of Jesus alone, as Acts has it, or in the threefold name, as Matthew has it — and behind that, whether Father, Son and Spirit are three persons or three modes of one.
The same questions asked of every body
What it holds
Are the gifts still given?
Inferred from the surrounding textsContinuing and expected, on the same terms as the body it left.
The New Issue divided the revival over the doctrine of God, not over the gifts, which both sides kept.
Who may act?
Not established here. The first thing a rite settles, usually in its opening rubric, and the sharpest divide between an office and a gift.
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?
Not established here. All four inherit gospel scenes in which spirits are in people. What each adds beyond that is the largest difference between them.
Whom do the words address?
Not established here. A formal difference a reader can check by counting clauses rather than by weighing tone.
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.
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.