the movement chiefly came about as a response to general dissatisfaction with the christian establishment's tendency to lapse into "provincialism" when presented with the "unusual" theological ideas common during the 1960s. the movement also suggested the legitimacy of seeking the holy outside the church itself. thereby it suggests that the church did not have exclusive rights to divine inspiration. in a sense, this incorporated a strong sense of continuous revelation in which truth of the religious sort was sought out in poetry, music, art, or even the pub and in the street.