The Chick Report with Dr. Sandra Glahn
Oct 6, 2026 · 43 min · 9 segments
How were women involved in the earliest times of the church? In this episode, Dr. Sandra Glahn talks with Dr. Amy Brown Hughes, author and early church historian, about the role women played in the…
Sandra GlahnHost
So how does one study the Montanists? I mean, there's not that much to work with, is there?
You know, it's interesting, and when we're working with these sources, you sort of think, "Oh, I've never heard of these people.
There must not be anything on them." Uh, and the Montanists is an interesting piece because, um, there's, it, it offers us a really, um, nice view of kind of what is actually out there.
Um, because as I mentioned, Tertullian of Carthage, we have a lot of material from him.
So one of the ways that we can learn a little bit about Montanism is reading some of these larger works by people who were connected to the movement.
Um, and then especially with a group like this that ran afoul of some people who were, uh, thinking that they were not, um, orthodox.
That's, I would say orthodox, that language I'm using right there, was not used at the time.
They didn't have that category for, at the time, especially early on in, in working with the Montanists.
Uh, but they, they were, um, problematic in some way according to the rule of faith, according to the practice of the, practice, um, and belief structure at the time.
But with this group, with the New Prophecy or the Montanists, um, they were often included in these com- compilations of problematic beliefs.
Uh, like we call them, like, heresy hunters, like, um, Irenaeus or Epiphanius-
So he goes through and he just lists out these are all the different heretical groups.
So how does one study the Montanists? I mean, there's not that much to work with, is there?
You know, it's interesting, and when we're working with these sources, you sort of think, "Oh, I've never heard of these people.
There must not be anything on them." Uh, and the Montanists is an interesting piece because, um, there's, it, it offers us a really, um, nice view of kind of what is actually out there.
Um, because as I mentioned, Tertullian of Carthage, we have a lot of material from him.
So one of the ways that we can learn a little bit about Montanism is reading some of these larger works by people who were connected to the movement.
Um, and then especially with a group like this that ran afoul of some people who were, uh, thinking that they were not, um, orthodox.
That's, I would say orthodox, that language I'm using right there, was not used at the time.
They didn't have that category for, at the time, especially early on in, in working with the Montanists.
Uh, but they, they were, um, problematic in some way according to the rule of faith, according to the practice of the, practice, um, and belief structure at the time.
But with this group, with the New Prophecy or the Montanists, um, they were often included in these com- compilations of problematic beliefs.
Uh, like we call them, like, heresy hunters, like, um, Irenaeus or Epiphanius-
So he goes through and he just lists out these are all the different heretical groups.
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