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  Tertullian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In his Apologeticus, he was the first Latin author to qualify Christianism as the 'vera religio', and symmetrically relegating the classical Empire religion and other accepted cults as mere 'superstitions'.
In middle life (about 207) he broke with the Catholic Church and became the local leader and the passionate and brilliant exponent of Montanism, that is, he became a heretic.
It is in part determined by the Montanistic views that are set forth in some of them, by the author's own allusions to this writing or that as ante-dating others (cf.
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 Island of Freedom - Tertullian
After espousing Montanist doctrines, he was a severe critic of orthodox Christians, whom he accused of moral laxity.
Of his doctrinal treatises refuting heresy, the most important is De praescriptione hereticorum (On the Claims of Heretics), in which he argued that the church alone has the authority to declare what is and is not orthodox Christianity.
Like all Montanists, Tertullian held that Christians should welcome persecution, not flee from it.
www.island-of-freedom.com /TERTULL.HTM   (711 words)

  
 Baptist - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Carroll's The Trail of Blood, written in 1931, is commonly presented to defend this origin's view.
Several groups considered to be part of this Baptist succession were groups persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church throughout history including Montanists, Novatianists, Donatists, Paulicians, Albigensians, Catharists, Waldenses, and Anabaptists.
While some of these groups shared a few theological positions with current Baptists, many held positions that would now be considered heretical by current Baptists.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/b/a/p/Baptist.html   (3645 words)

  
 Tertullian : The Montanists
In the west, among the Montanist leaders was Proclus, with whom the Roman presbyter Gaius published a Debate.
It would seem that the Montanists were orthodox in all matters of doctrine.
Some modern pentecostals see the Montanists as the last flicker of the apostolic gifts of the spirit, although it seems that the apostolic age was already over before the Montanists began..
www.tertullian.org /montanism.htm   (791 words)

  
 Anabaptist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The present concept and idea of Anabaptism or rebaptism has existed at least since the 2nd century, and some Anabaptists also point to the 1st century example of the Apostle Paul in Acts chapter 19.
Montanus, the Montanists, and Tertullian (2nd and 3rd centuries) denied infant baptism, practiced believer's baptism, and rebaptized those baptized by heretics.
The Donatists (4th century) re-baptized those who had been baptized by bishops who were traditors, or who were from churches stained by fellowship with traditors¹.
anabaptist.iqnaut.net   (3366 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Pentecostal History of Tongues: 150 AD - 1901 AD
The church father Eusebius wrote, "[Montanus] stirred up two women and filled them with the bastard spirit so that they uttered demented, absurd and irresponsible sayings." (Cited in Henry BeKenson, ea., Documents of the Christian Church (London: Oxford, 1963), 77.) Some historians have taken that to mean that those women spoke in tongues.
Hippolytus wrote of the Montanists, "They have been deceived by two females, Priscilla and Maximilla by name, whom they hold to be prophetesses, asserting that into them the Paraclete spirit entered....
Asterius Urbanus, Writing against the later Montanists, he asked why they no longer had prophets after their prophet Montanus and his co-workers died.
www.bible.ca /tongues-history.htm   (13981 words)

  
 HERESY - Online Information article about HERESY
If it was desired to get rid of these, an effort was made to impute to them some deviation from the See also:
rule of faith; and under this pretext the church freed herself from the Montanists and the Monarchians.
Cyprian was the first to proclaim the identity of heretics and schismatics by making a See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /HEG_HIG/HERESY.html   (6115 words)

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