| 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. |
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| He worked with rigorism accentuated by simple form and minimalist details. |
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| Nevertheless the rigorism of his ascetic resolve was never relaxed. |
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| We have gone from rigorism and taboo to permissiveness that places no limits on desire. |
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| He made the deliberate choice of making mercy prevail over the contemporary rigorism. |
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| It's the rigorism which gives the diagonal its fierce noble tone that makes an impact, the beauty. |
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| The argument, however, is finally rejected as a subtle form of an unreasonably demanding moral rigorism. |
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| With regard to the sacrament of penance the spirit is one of encouragement both for penitents and confessors and avoids both extremes of laxity and rigorism. |
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| There him remains a religious rigorism about it some. |
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| 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. |
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| Montanism appealed to Tertullian's zealous moral and ascetic rigorism and his antagonism towards secular culture. |
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| Later in life, Tertullian is thought by most to have joined the Montanists, a heretical sect that appealed to his rigorism. |
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| For instance, it follows from this rigorism of self-righteous fanatics that it must be also a mortal sin to hold public office. |
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| One way to understand American missionaries' religious-ethical rigorism is to think of it in relation to their desire to ensure the purity of the church. |
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