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HISTORY Shortly after Montanus' conversion to as the site of the New Jerusalem ) across the contemporary Christian world, to Africa and Gaul. The divisive movement was partly inspired by a Gnostic reading of the '' Gospel Of John ''— "I will send you the advocate Paraclete '' , the spirit of truth" (Heine 1987, 1989; Groh 1985); the response to this Continuing Revelation split the Christian communities, and the more orthodox episcopal hierarchy fought to suppress it. Bishop Apollinarius found the church at Ancyra torn in two, and he opposed the "false prophesy" (quoted by Eusebius 5.16.5). Prisca claimed that Christ had appeared to her in female form. When she was excommunicated, she exclaimed "I am driven away like the wolf from the sheep. I am no wolf: I am Word and spirit and power." The most widely known defender of Montanists was undoubtedly Tertullian , onetime champion of orthodox belief, who believed that the new prophecy was genuinely motivated and began to fall out of step with what he began to call "the church of a lot of bishops" (''On Modesty''). Irenaeus , who visited Rome during the height of the controversy, in the pontificate of Eleuterus , returned to find Lyon in dissension, and was inspired to write the first great statement of the mainstream Catholic position, ''Adversus Haereses.'' Although the mainstream Christian church prevailed against Montanism within a few generations, inscriptions in the , and some of its emphasis on direct, ecstatic personal presence of the Holy Spirit bears resemblance to all forms of Pentecostalism . Also they are very similar to the Molokan sect. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MONTANISM AND CATHOLICISM The beliefs of Montanism contrasted with mainstream Catholicism in the following ways:
Jerome and other church leaders claimed that the Montanists held the belief that the Trinity consisted of only a single person, similar to Sabellianism , but in contrast to the Catholic view that the Trinity is one God of three persons. Other Catholic church leaders and Tertullian denied this charge. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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