| He made the deliberate choice of making mercy prevail over the contemporary rigorism. |
| The argument, however, is finally rejected as a subtle form of an unreasonably demanding moral rigorism. |
| Montanism appealed to Tertullian's zealous moral and ascetic rigorism and his antagonism towards secular culture. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
