Montanism in Roman North Africa: concerning the problem of martyrdom reflection
The article studies the heresy of Montanism in Roman North Africa. The author comes to conclusion, that the New Prothecy can't be interpretated as single phenomenon. The specific feature of African montanism was not just ascetism, traditional for Phrygians, but the worship of martyrdom. It is the cultural content in that the Phrygian heresy acts as base of Disciplinary heresies and schisms in North Africa.