The emergence widespread acceptance of the validity of the charismatic experience has generated many questions. One of the foremost is, What happened to the gifts of the Spirit after the New Testament period? Dr. Ronald Kydd's careful probe seeks to answer that question. After a thorough and careful study of the writings of the early church fathers Dr. Kydd provides an objective, informative analysis and reaches thought-provoking conclusions. He concludes that what emerges from a study of the sources is the picture of Church which is strongly charismatic up until around A.D. 200.