Although it does not refer directly to the Gospel, Antoinism is often considered a Christian-based new religious movement. In 1970, British sociologist Bryan Wilson classified Antoinism in the category of "thaumaturgical sects". Secretary of the French episcopate for the study of cults and new religious movements Jean Vernette also deemed the group a "healer church" and "a new religion of Spiritism, Theosophy and elements of Christianity". "Le Protestant Liégeois", a Belgian Protestant periodical, said that the group, although listed as a cult in the 1995 parliamentary report, was "rather a philosophical and religious movement". In an encyclopedia about sects, the journalist Xavier Pasquini qualified Antoinism a "genuine Theosophical religion", and stated that it "does not ask for money from its followers, and does not practice excessive indoctrination".