Montanus

As a seminary student studying Church history, Montanus intrigued me. As little as is actually known about him, and as castigated as he was, and still is, by Churchmen, he struck me as an important figure, even a true man of God. I said at the time that he was the one figure in Church history I would most like to meet and talk to. Four decades later, now as an aging pastor, I revisited the subject of Montanus, and once again, felt that he was a significant figure, one that must be considered if the truth about the development of Christianity is to be found. What if Montanus was indeed sent by God to warn the body of Christ that they were headed in the wrong direction? What if he was not a heretic, but was exposing as false the deceivers that Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John all said would come and lead many believers astray? And what if leaders of Christianity had allowed the writings of Montanus and those with him to remain? Were those writings so convincing that Church leaders could not allow them to survive?Because almost nothing directly from Montanus remains, we are left with more questions than answers about him and the believers with him. Nevertheless, I am convinced that he had something from God that would have benefitted believers, had it been received. Accordingly, this book about Montanus differs from any other I have found, for it assumes that he was sent by God to a body of Christ which had fallen into apostasy.