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healing and the second coming of Jesus Christ. He emphasizes that pneumatology and the baptism of the Spirit are the hermeneutical keys to understanding Pentecostal doctrine and experience. Neo-Pentecostal pastors (NPS), while maintaining their Pentecostal inheritance and their connexion with the Protestant Reformation, assume a distinct identity which differentiates them from classical Pentecostalism. A movement of continuity and discontinuity can be observed here between the Pentecostals and the Neo-Pentecostals which will now be described in detail.\u000A3. Neo-Pentecostalism\u000AFrom the start it must be noted that it is not possible just to talk of Neo-Pentecostalism but rather of Neo-Pentecostal churches.10 There are different expressions of the Neo- Pentecostal movement within Latin America and beyond. In spite of this a series of characteristics can be observed which mark this new eruption of Christianity in Guatemala and beyond. These churches differ one from another due to their own contexts, theological positions, social and ecclesiastical backgrounds and other aspects. Anderson describes the different types of Pentecostals and Charismatics and because of this the difficulty of defining them both. He assumes the term \u2018New Pentecostals\u2019 to describe globally the churches and movements that emphasize the work of the gifts of the Spirit, on both the phenomenological theological platforms (2004: 9, 13).\u000AAlthough some similitude can be observed between these churches, there are differences from classical Pentecostalism (the first wave of revival). The Charismatic movement traces its origins to historic churches in the United States in the University of Van Nuys (Los Angeles) in the 1960s. They point out that those who left their churches acquired their own life, they extended rapidly among the historic denominations and later entered the Catholic world in 1967 (the second wave of revival). (Anderson 2004: 147- 152). Among the well known preachers are David Wilkerson, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson,\u000A10 See the complete study of Paul Freston on Neo-Pentecostalism in \u2018Charismatic Evangelical in Latin America: Mission and Politics on the Frontiers of Protestant Growth\u2019, in Hunt, Hamilton & Walker (eds) (1997).\u000A 23\u000A