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Montanism

A burst of new prophecy and rigorous discipline that drew even Tertullian's loyalty

Montanism was a second-century movement, named for Montanus and known as the New Prophecy, that claimed fresh prophetic revelation and demanded rigorist discipline. It attracted the noted writer Tertullian. The mainstream Church rejected it, wary of its claims to ongoing revelation and its severe standards. The precise date of its origin is uncertain, generally placed in the mid- to later second century.

How it traveled

  1. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  2. Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men
    Bethlehem · 420
    applies
  3. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
    challenges

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Apollonius. · Remains of the Second and Third Centuries

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The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, For the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies · Vincent of Lérins

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