Montanism

I have been researching the Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament for since early 2001. I am particularly interested in the reasons why the use of prophecy died out so quickly in the church, and believe that the church's reaction to Montanism was one of the primary reasons for this.

I am keen to make contact with others researching this field, including those researching the Didache, Shepherd of Hermas or 1 Corinthians.

Bibliography

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Below is a bibliography that relates to the 'New Prophecy', or Montanism.

James L Ash, "Decline of Ecstatic Prophecy in the Early Church," Theological Studies 37 (1976): 227-252.

J C Beker, "Prophecy and the Spirit in the Apostolic Fathers" (PhD University of Chicago, 1955).

H von Campenhausen, Ecclesiastical authority and spiritual power in the church of the first three centuries (London: A & C Black, 1969).

R W D Coupe, "Christian prophecy and Christian glossolalia: Their functions and decline in the first two centuries" (MA University of Wales, 1983).

Christopher Forbes, Prophecy and inspired speech in early Christianity and its Hellenistic environment (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1997).

Robert John Hauck, "Inspiratation as apologetic: The debate over true prophecy in the contra celsum of Origen" (PhD Duke University, 1986).

Ronald E Heine, The Montanist oracles and testimonia (Marcon: Mercer University Press, 1989).

John Mark Hicks, "Latin Christianity in Africa: Tertullian and Cyprian," Available from http://www.hugsr.edu/544A/544a005.htm

Mary Jane Kreidler, Montanism and monasticism: charism and authority in the early church (Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1989).

Sheila Elizabeth McGinn-Moorer, "The "Montanist" oracles and prophetic theology," in Studia Patristica 31 (Louvain: Peeters, 1997).

Sheila Elizabeth McGinn-Moorer, "The new prophecy of Asia Minor and the rise of ecclesiastical patriarchy in second century Pauline traditions" (PhD Northwestern university, 1989).

Paul Onica, "Lessons From Montanism," Affirmation & Critique 2, no. 1 (1997): 52-54.

David Rankin, Tertullian and the church (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Cecil M Robeck, "Canon, Regulae Fidei, and continuing revelation in the early church," in Church, Word and Spirit: Historical and Theological Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Bromiley, ed. James E Bradley and Richard A Muller. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987).

Cecil M Robeck, "Montanism: A Problematic Spirit Movement," Paraclete 15, no. 3 (1981).

Cecil M Robeck, Prophecy in Carthage: Perpetua, Tertullian, Cyprian (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1993).

Cecil M Robeck, "Tertullian and Prophetic Gifts," Paraclete 13, no. 3 (1984).

J de Soyres, Montanism and the primitive church: A study in the ecclesiastical history of the second century (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1878).

A Stewart-Sykes, "The Original Condemnation of Asian Montanism (on the Second Century Roman Church's Response to Innovations of Institutionalised Prophecy and Ministry)," Journal of Ecclesiastical History 50, no. 1 (1999).

William Tabbernee, "To pardon or not to pardon?: North-African montanism and the forgiveness of sins," 1 A.D. Available from http://divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/burn s/chroma/penance/pentabb.html