Montanism
Noun
Meaning
Montanism (uncountable)
(Christianity) The doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs.
Examples
Other Christian sects or movements * Montanus, founder of Montanism an early Christian movement of the 2nd century.
These views may have led him to adopt Montanism with its ascetic rigor and its belief in chiliasm and the continuance of the prophetic gifts.