C. Peter Wagner, also Charles Peter Wagner, was a missiologist, author, missionary, Fuller Theological Seminary professor of church growth, and apostolic-network organizer. In this repository he matters because he named and framed the New Apostolic Reformation, built or led several apostolic and spiritual-warfare institutions, and supplied part of the movement context in which Lance Wallnau became a prominent Seven Mountains figure.
The strongest biographical sources identify Wagner as born on 1930-08-15 and deceased on 2016-10-21. The current source set supports a robust Wagner entity page, but it also requires careful source-type distinctions: Wagner described NAR as a movement he observed and named, while independent and critical sources often describe him as an intellectual architect, organizer, or leader of that movement.
Wagner served with Doris Wagner as a missionary in Bolivia from 1956 to 1971, then taught church growth at Fuller's School of World Mission from 1971 until retirement in 2001. The archival and obituary sources also identify him as a major church-growth writer and missiologist, with degrees or institutional study linked to Rutgers University, Fuller Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Southern California.
His institution-building is central to the repo's use of this entity. The strongest current source set ties him to:
MC510 Signs and Wonders course taught with John Wimber from 1981 to 1985Endpoint details remain uneven across sources. Global Harvest dates vary by source family, and the repo should preserve the discrepancy instead of forcing one clean transition date.
Wagner's own Charisma essay says he did not found NAR as a formal organization and that it had no membership list, annual meeting, or official doctrine statement. He presented himself as a researcher who began recognizing the pattern in 1993, tested the name in 1994, and used the label to describe a broad change in non-denominational charismatic Christianity.
That self-description should not erase the stronger outside-source pattern. ProPublica describes Wagner as a Fuller professor who considered the independent charismatic shift the largest Christian change in centuries, called it the New Apostolic Reformation, and helped it flourish. Religion Dispatches says Wagner coined the term in the 1990s and built institutions that became organizing models. Resane's theological analysis treats Wagner as a central figure in the ecclesiology of the movement.
For repository purposes, the best-supported claim is: Wagner named, framed, promoted, and institutionalized NAR ideas and networks, while denying that he founded or controlled a formal denomination-like organization.
The source set most strongly associates Wagner with:
Wagner's own NPR and Charisma statements say his dominion language did not mean church ownership of government or theocracy. Critical, scholarly, and reporting sources still treat the same language as politically consequential because it directs Christians toward authority in major institutions. The page should preserve both parts: Wagner's stated boundary and the independent interpretation of public-power consequences.
The current source set supports a meaningful but bounded Wagner-to-Wallnau relationship.
Supported relationship types:
Not yet supported:
The safest current formulation is that Wagner provided apostolic recognition, network context, and an intellectual / institutional framework that source-grounded scholarship and reporting treat as important to Wallnau's development as a Seven Mountains figure.
Signs and Wonders course; no entity page yet.wiki/summaries/c-peter-wagner-biography-nar-and-wallnau-source-cluster.md: consolidates primary, archival, scholarly, and reporting sources for this page.wiki/timelines/c-peter-wagner-biographical-and-nar-chronology.md: separates dated chronology from biographical synthesis.raw/articles/2026-04-18T200100-0600-the-truth-about-the-new-apostolic-reformation-charisma.md: preserves Wagner's self-description of NAR, dominion, and Seven Mountains.raw/articles/2026-04-18T200200-0600-npr-fresh-air-c-peter-wagner-leading-figure-nar-transcript.md: preserves Wagner's public interview on apostles, dominion, The Response, and spiritual warfare.raw/articles/2026-04-18T200300-0600-c-peter-wagner-noteworthy-international-bulletin-mission-research.md: provides concise obituary and professional chronology.raw/articles/2026-04-18T200400-0600-c-peter-wagner-collection-oac-finding-aid.md: provides archival dates, institutional chronology, and collection scope.raw/articles/2026-04-18T200700-0600-seven-mountains-network-apostolic-leadership-mdpi.md: provides the strongest current scholarly support for the Wagner-to-Wallnau apostolic-recognition / network-placement relationship.Churchquake!, Dominion!, The New Apostolic Churches, and Invading Babylon.