Montanism: Doctrine Of The Paraclete Analysis
It is noted that Montanism as a spiritual and charismatic movement pretended a threat to the emerging church hierarchy. Even with series of criticism and continuous arguments from orthodox Christian authors, Montanism didn’t vanish until the 6th century. However, prophecy is assumed as the distinctive idea of Montanism as its followers explained that any believer could be a prophet. In that way, he believed that Jesus promised Holy Spirit to all the Christians as these people could speak alike on behalf of God. Furthermore, another distinctive feature is doctrine of the Paraclete, which claimed to be the recipients although in state of ecstasy of special divine revelations (Chung, 2013). It is believed by Montanists that the Holy Spirit or