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English
Etymology
From Montanus + -ism.
Pronunciation
Noun
Montanism (uncountable)
- (Christianity) The doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 138: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’.
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Translations
the doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs