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Is Montanism a Heretical Sect or Pentecostal Antecedent?

Jinkwang Kim, Lucien
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"In a Pentecostal circle, it is widely accepted that Montanism is one of the Pentecostal antecedents, and yet in fact it was condemned as a heresy by the early Christian writers and bishops such as Eusebius and Epiphanius.1 Finally, the Synod of Iconium (A.D. 230) officially rejected the Montanist baptism and excommunicated the movement.2 Eusebius, in his Ecclesiastical History, fiercely attacks Montanus and his enthusiastic followers by considering their “New Prophecy” movement as the work of the devil “having devised destruction against those that disobeyed the truth, and thus excessively honored by them, secretly stimulated and fired their understandings, already wrapped in insensibility, and wandering away from the truth.”
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2009
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