Montanism appealed to Tertullian's zealous moral and ascetic rigorism and his antagonism towards secular culture. |
By contrast, the sort of Church that Montanus offered was one of ecstatic prophecy, immediate eschatology, ascetic moral rigorism, and, at the same time, institutional chaos. |
We have gone from rigorism and taboo to permissiveness that places no limits on desire. |
He worked with rigorism accentuated by simple form and minimalist details. |
It's the rigorism which gives the diagonal its fierce noble tone that makes an impact, the beauty. |
The argument, however, is finally rejected as a subtle form of an unreasonably demanding moral rigorism. |