Talk:William M. Branham/Archive 0

"The person universally acknowledged as the revival’s 'father' and 'pacesetter' was William Branham. The sudden appearance of his miraculous healing campaigns in 1946 set off a spiritual explosion in the Pentecostal movement which was to move to Main Street, U.S.A., by the 1950s and give birth to the broader charismatic movement in the 1960s, which currently affects almost every denomination in the country"

While it is sometimes claimed that other groups in the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements were partially influenced by Branham (including the Latter Rain Movement, Manifest Sons of God, and Kingdom Now theology) there is little resemblance between the current theology of these groups and what Branham taught.