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Enthusiasm is almost as old as Christianity itself. Author Knox detects the seeds of it in the Corinthian church to which Paul wrote his famed epistles. Here, as among the frenzied followers of Montanus (about 175 A.D.), he notes the growing importance of women. From the Montanist movement on, "the history of enthusiasm is largely a history of female emancipation, and it is not a reassuring one . . . The sturdiest champion of women's rights will hardly deny that the unfettered exercise of the prophetic ministry by the more devout sex can threaten the ordinary decencies of ecclesiastical order...
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