Meanings
nounMontanism (uncountable)
- uncountableChristianityThe doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries, founded by Montanus in Phrygia, which held millenarian beliefs.First known use 16th c.
The disappearance of charismatic wandering Christian teachers or prophets and the assertion of the authority of bishops were probably sealed by the Catholic Church's confrontation in the later second century with a movement known as Montanism or ‘the New Prophecy’.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 138
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Translations
Arabic الْمُونْتَانِيَّة
- الْمُونْتَانِيَّة (al-mūntāniyya)the doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs
Finnish montanismi
- montanismithe doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs
French montanisme
- montanismethe doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs
Italian montanismo
- montanismothe doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs
Portuguese montanismo
- montanismothe doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs
Russian монтанизм
- монтанизм (montanizm)the doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs
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