| We have gone from rigorism and taboo to permissiveness that places no limits on desire. |
| Montanism appealed to Tertullian's zealous moral and ascetic rigorism and his antagonism towards secular culture. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Nevertheless the rigorism of his ascetic resolve was never relaxed. |
