He worked with rigorism accentuated by simple form and minimalist details. |
There him remains a religious rigorism about it some. |
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. |
Montanism appealed to Tertullian's zealous moral and ascetic rigorism and his antagonism towards secular culture. |
The Shepherd of Hermas, a book that enjoyed canonical status in some areas of the early church, enforced the point that excessive rigorism produces hypocrisies. |