The Berlin declaration was a theological statement by 56 leading Evangelical theologians in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. The declaration condemns the German Pentecostal movement which had started two years earlier in Kassel

Kassel

Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

. It stated that the Pentecostal movement was “not from above, but from below”. The declaration specifically mentions Jonathan Paul

Jonathan Paul

Jonathan Anton Alexander Paul was a German Pentecostal minister, writer, theologian, and Bible scholar and translator.Paul graduated from the Studium der Theologie in the University of Griefswald and pastored in Pomerania...

 as the movement’s leader, but it is not clear that Jonathan Paul saw himself as such.

The declaration was formally revoked by the Gnadauer Gemeinschaftsverbandes in a statement of January 2009. This move is seen a major step toward reconciliation

Reconciliation

Reconciliation may variously refer to:* Bank reconciliation* Truth and reconciliation commission-Religion:* Sacrament of Penance , also known as Reconciliation...

between Pentecostals and non-Pentecostal churches in Germany.