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Charles Peter Wagner (born 1930) is a Christian theologian, missiologist, missionary, writer, teacher, and church growth specialist best known for his controversial writings on spiritual warfare. Wagner served as a missionary in Bolivia under the South American Mission and Andes Evangelical Mission (now SIM International) from 1956 to 1971. He then served for 30 years (1971 to 2001) as Professor of Church Growth at the Fuller Theological Seminary's School of World Missions until his retirement in 2001. He is the author of more than 70 books. He was the president of Global Harvest Ministries from 1993 to 2011 and is currently the chancellor emeritus of Wagner Leadership Institute, which serves to train leaders to join in a movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, an organization Wagner also helped to found. He is currently the vice president of Global Spheres, Inc. ==Spiritual warfare== Wagner wrote about spiritual warfare, in books including ''Confronting the Powers: How the New Testament Church Experienced the Power of Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare'' and ''Engaging the Enemy''. In ''Confronting the Powers'', Wagner breaks down spiritual warfare as having three levels: "Ground Level: Person-to-person, praying for each other's personal needs. Occult Level: deals with demonic forces released through activities related to Satanism, witchcraft, astrology and many other forms of structured occultism. Strategic-Level or Cosmic-Level: To bind and bring down spiritual principalities and powers that rule over governments."〔C. Peter Wagner, Confronting the Powers, pp.21-22〕 "Strategic-level intercession" uses "spiritual mapping" and "tearing down strongholds" to engage in spiritual warfare against "territorial spirits".〔Confronting the Powers〕 According to Wagner, these methods "were virtually unknown to the majority of Christians before the 1990s”.〔Confronting the Powers, p21〕 The premise of ''Engaging the Enemy'' is that Satan and his demons are literally in the world, that Satan's territorial spirit-demons may be identified by name, and that Christians are to engage in spiritual warfare with them.〔C. Peter Wagner, Engaging the Enemy〕 In ''Hard-Core Idolatry: Facing the Facts'', Wagner asserts that Catholic saints bring honor to the spirits of darkness, and promotes the burning of their statues in Argentina. Wagner asserts that the Holy Spirit came to his associate, Cindy Jacobs (a "prophet" in Wagner’s Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders) and "told her that in (Argentinian city of ) Resistencia they must burn the idols, like the magicians did in Ephesus".〔Hard-Core Idolatry – Facing the Facts, pp 38-40, 1999, publisher - Wagner Institute of Practical Ministry〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「C. Peter Wagner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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