Montanist

The so-called Montanist controversy was in the last resort not merely a struggle to secure a stricter mode of life as against a laxer, but also the struggle of a more independent religious attitude and activity as against one which was prescribed and uniform.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

This crisis (the so called Montanist struggle) and the kindred one which succeeded produced the following results: The Church merely regarded herself all the more strictly as a legal community basing the truth of its title on its historic and objective foundations, and gave a correspondingly new interpretation to the attribute of holiness she claimed.

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

The so-called Montanist reaction [193] was itself subjected to a similar change, in accordance with the advancing ecclesiastical development of Christendom.

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

You are quite correct, my fingers got ahead of me and I meant to type "Montanist" but had early Christological controversies running through my brain.

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong comes to Fort Worth and KERA | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

Don't even bother bringing up Tertullian's De Corona, since Tertullian was a Montanist not truly 'orthodoxy' in every way, and he is clearly preaching in that treatise to the fully 'orthodox'.

Tacitus on Mythicism James F. McGrath 2010

The most adamant of the "Allah is not God" line of reasoning is the foremost of the Apollinarian/Montanist neo-heretics in America today, Pat Robertson, a good deal of JK's rhetoric seems to be taken right out of the CBN/700 club playbook.

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong comes to Fort Worth and KERA | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

(So, for instance, Montanist rules: "Orders of Ministry" goes magisterial, anyone who remarried automatically loses, and being martyred trumps everything else.)

AKMA’s Random Thoughts 2005

Montanist heresy patronized by Eleutherus the Bishop of Rome; and there he met an old friend from the school of Polycarp, who had embraced the

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

And could St. Austin, with the whole Catholic church, have ranked a Montanist among the most illustrious martyrs?

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

In the Montanist churches women baptized, and of this there are traces in the earliest church and in the

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various