[Tennessee Nana]

Tertullian and his “Montanist heresy”

Protestant beliefs ???

[markomalley]

Protestant beliefs ???

I wouldn't generalize it as "Protestant" -- having said that, there might be a small subset of charismatics who could fall within that category. But I haven't studied it so much as to be able to say definitively "this group" or "that group."

[Mrs. Don-o]

From what I read, the Montanists were kind of fervent Charismatic group that got into a ind of frenzied state and who thought themselves possessed by (not "inspired" by, but possessed by) the Holy Spirit, such that their revelations outranked Scripture.

They weren't, as I understand it, an organization so much as a movement, and had different practices and prophecies at different locales, some in conflict and contradicting each other.

I don't think that's actually Protestantism, unless you want it to be.