Montanism (2)

This continues a short series on ancient church heresies. The church condemned Montanism. “The believers in Asia met many times in many places to investigate the recent utterances, pronounced them sacrilegious, and rejected the heresy… Then at last [the Montanists] were excommunicated and ejected from the church.”[1] These meetings were likely some of the first synods in the post-Apostolic age.[2] Apollinarius of Hieropolis, Miltiades, Apollonius, and Serapion are a few of the earliest...