Crossword-Solution: MONTANISM
We have 3 clues for the answer “MONTANISM”
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| CHRISTIAN heretical movement (2nd c.) | 1 answer |
| Christian heretical movement | 1 answer |
| HERETICAL movement (2nd c.) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
Hint 2 anagram
TASETU
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Liberty
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Sentences with MONTANISM (5)
But again the church of Rome, now becoming every day more and more completely the capital of the Christian world, checked the nascent Montanism, or puritanism of the moment, vindicating for all Christian people a cheerful liberty of heart, against many a narrow group of sectaries, all alike, in their different ways, accusers of the genial creation of God.
And if it be true, what conclusion are we to come to? Is it that the law which rules in Ireland is bad, but the people good; or that the law is good, but the people bad? Now, let us, if we can, get rid for a moment of Episcopalianism, Presbyterianism, Protestantism, and Orangeism on the one hand, and of Catholicism, Romanism, and Ultra- montanism on the other,--let us for a moment get beyond all these 'isms,' and try if we can discover what it is that is the great evil in your country.
The obscurity and harshness of Tertullian, he says (and to this may be added his Montanism, which fluctuated on the edge of heresy), prevent him from being read or esteemed as widely as his great literary power deserves; while Minucius, in his single treatise, the _Octavius,_ gave a brilliant specimen of his grace and power as a Christian apologist, but did not carry out the task to its full scope.
Ever since the rise of Montanism--which made its appearance about the time of the death of Polycarp--there had been an increasing tendency all over the Church to exaggerate the merits of martyrdom.
His letter is pervaded, not by the enlightened and cheerful piety of the New Testament, but by the gloomy and repulsive spirit of Montanism.