Montanism
//ˈmɒntənɪz(ə)m// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs. uncountable
"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’."
Example
More examples"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’."
Etymology
From Montanus + -ism.
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