Montanism: A Local, Popular, Apocalyptic Reform Movement in Early Christianity
The aim of the paper is to focus on Montanism in its early decades and to situate three of the much-disputed aspects of the movement within the wider context of Early Christianity, namely, prophecy, eschatology, and their novel, more rigorous, moral rules. Montanism can be seen as a popular type of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2025, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 549-566 |
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| Summary: | The aim of the paper is to focus on Montanism in its early decades and to situate three of the much-disputed aspects of the movement within the wider context of Early Christianity, namely, prophecy, eschatology, and their novel, more rigorous, moral rules. Montanism can be seen as a popular type of an Early Christian reform movement with a local, Phrygian touch, a "millenarian" movement of the conversionist type, with strong emphasis on moral purity. Montanism embodied in its own way the message of Mark 1:15: πεπλήρωται ὁ καιρὸς καὶ ἤγγικεν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ· μετανοεῖτε καὶ πιστεύετε ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2025.a978169 |
