0078 - 210 AD - Tertullian Witnesses Spiritual Gifts Then Drifts into Montanism - When Being Right About Gifts Costs You Unity

210 AD - Tertullian Witnesses Spiritual Gifts Then Drifts into Montanism - When Being Right About Gifts Costs You Unity

Description: In 210 AD, Tertullian of Carthage described spiritual gifts like tongues, prophecy, and visions as normal realities in his church, documenting them with the same matter-of-fact tone he used for everything else. Three years later, in a different work challenging a heretic, he declared that all these signs of the Spirit were still active without any difficulty. But by the early 210s, Tertullian began aligning with Montanism, a movement claiming the Holy Spirit was bringing new prophetic revelations that held authority alongside Scripture. Some opponents accused them of teaching that the age of the Son had ended and the age of the Spirit had begun. Within five years, Tertullian separated from the mainstream church in Carthage, treating prophetic utterances as a higher guide than church leaders. He didn't deny the Trinity, the resurrection, or the deity of Christ, but he made spiritual experiences the center of his faith instead of the fruit of it. By the 220s, the brilliant defender of orthodoxy had died isolated from the fellowship he once championed. This episode challenges both those who insist gifts ceased after the apostles and those who make experiences the measure of faithfulness, showing that both extremes miss Jesus at the center. It asks whether our eternal destiny depends on getting this right, or whether grace holds us when we're wrong, and invites listeners to lay down the need to win the argument and return to the simplicity of knowing Jesus.

Keywords: Tertullian, Carthage, spiritual gifts, tongues, prophecy, visions, Montanism, Montanus, Prisca, Maximilla, age of the Paraclete, Holy Spirit, apostolic authority, church unity, theological drift, cessationism, continuationism, early church history, 210 AD, North Africa, Latin theology, Trinity, Against Marcion, On the Soul, spiritual experiences, gospel fruit, discipleship, grace, walking with Jesus, church division, orthodoxy, heresy

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CHUNK 01A–HOOK

She stood in the assembly with her eyes closed.

The gathered believers in Carthage knew her. They had watched her before—this woman who, during worship, sometimes received visions that came with startling clarity. The church leaders examined what she reported. They tested it against Scripture. And when it aligned, when it built up the body, they received it.

Tertullian wrote about her the way someone might mention a sunrise—real, present, unremarkable in its regularity.

This wasn't legend. It wasn't nostalgia for the age of the apostles. It was Sunday morning in North Africa, and the Spirit was still moving.

But within a decade, that same reality—spiritual gifts active in the church—would become the center of a fracture that Tertullian himself would deepen.

Not because the gifts disappeared.

But because someone began to claim they carried authority that rivaled the apostles themselves.

And Tertullian, the brilliant defender of orthodoxy, would have to choose:

The church he had built his life defending, or the movement that promised the Spirit was saying something new.

CHUNK 01B–CLIFFHANGER

He saw miracles and called them normal. He witnessed prophecy and documented it without apology. But seeing the Spirit move and knowing what it means are two different things. And the distance between them would cost Tertullian everything he spent his brilliant life building.

CHUNK 02–VERBATIM INTRO

From the That's Jesus Channel–welcome to COACH - where Church origins and church history actually coach us how to walk boldly with Jesus today. I'm Bob Baulch. And on Monday, we stay between 0–500 AD.

CHUNK 03–SEGUE

Today we arrive in early third-century Carthage, where the presence of spiritual gifts and the rise of a prophetic movement will test the boundaries of apostolic authority.

CHUNK 04–NARRATIVE

Tertullian [ter-TUHL-yun] was born around 155 AD in Carthage, a bustling port city on the North African coast. His father served in the Roman military. Tertullian studied law in Rome, mastered Latin and Greek, and built a career arguing cases with the kind of precision that left opponents scrambling.

Sometime in middle age, he converted to Christianity.

Soon after his conversion, he began writing. His first works defended believers against pagan accusations. He dismantled charges of atheism, cannibalism, and disloyalty to Rome. His arguments were sharp, structured, and relentless. He didn't just refute critics—he cornered them.

By around 200, he was one of the leading Christian writers in the Latin-speaking church. He wrote against Gnostics, Marcionites, and anyone else who twisted apostolic teaching. He coined new theological terms when Latin didn't have the words he needed. When he described God as three persons in one substance, he was the first known Christian writer to use the Latin word Trinitas—Trinity.

But Tertullian didn't just write about doctrine.

He wrote about what he saw.

Around 210 AD, in a work called On the Soul, Tertullian described spiritual experiences in the Carthage church. A woman in the congregation regularly received visions and revelations during worship. Her experiences were examined by church leaders, and what they judged sound was received as encouragement for the body.

Tertullian mentioned this almost in passing, as if such gifts were a normal part of Christian life in his community.

Three years later, in a completely different work—Against Marcion—Tertullian challenged the heretic Marcion to produce evidence of spiritual power from his god. He demanded prophets, visions, prayers uttered in ecstasy, and the interpretation of tongues. Then he made a decisive claim: all these signs of spiritual gifts were readily available in his community without difficulty.

He wasn't describing ancient history. He was describing the present. The gifts weren't fading in the churches Tertullian knew. They were active.

But by the early 210s, something had shifted.

Tertullian began writing in support of a movement called Montanism, named after a prophet named Montanus who had emerged in Asia Minor decades earlier. Montanus claimed the Holy Spirit was giving him direct revelations—new words from God. Two women, Prisca and Maximilla, joined him as prophetesses. Montanus claimed the Holy Spirit was now bringing the church into a new age—the age of the Paraclete. Some opponents portrayed this as teaching that the age of the Son had ended and the age of the Spirit had begun.

The movement spread quickly. It demanded strict fasting, condemned second marriages, and often denied that grave sins after baptism could be forgiven. Montanist prophets spoke in ecstatic trances, delivered urgent warnings, and declared that those who rejected their messages were rejecting the Spirit Himself.

Most church leaders rejected Montanism. They saw it as dangerous—a movement that let private visions overshadow apostolic authority and turned extreme spiritual experiences into tests of faithfulness.

But Tertullian saw something else.

He saw passion. Discipline. A refusal to compromise. He looked at the established church and saw bishops who forgave too easily, Christians who fasted only when convenient, and congregations that seemed more interested in comfort than holiness.

Montanism felt like fire.

By the 210s, Tertullian had thrown in his lot with the movement. He increasingly separated himself from the mainstream church in Carthage, aligning with other Montanist-minded believers. Decades later, Augustine would write about them, calling them the Tertullianists—a little community that, as Augustine tells it, lingered in North Africa for generations.

Tertullian kept writing. His output didn't slow. If anything, he became more prolific. But the tone changed.

Where he once defended the church against outside attackers, he now criticized it from within. He wrote treatises condemning bishops who allowed remarriage after a spouse's death. He mocked leaders who readmitted believers who had committed adultery or denied Christ under persecution. He treated the Spirit's revelations through Montanist prophets as a higher guide than what church leaders and bishops decreed.

In one work, he mockingly called a bishop—likely the Bishop of Rome—the Bishop of Bishops for forgiving a man guilty of sexual immorality. Tertullian called the decision weak, unspiritual, and proof that the institutional church had lost its way.

He didn't deny core Christian doctrines. He still confessed the Trinity, the resurrection, and the deity of Christ. His theological insights remained sharp. Even his critics admitted he could argue circles around most teachers in the church. He articulated the doctrine of the Trinity with a clarity that would echo through Nicaea and beyond. He laid foundations for Latin Christianity that would shape the Western church for a thousand years.

But he did it all from outside the fellowship he once defended.

Because somewhere along the way, Tertullian stopped seeing spiritual gifts as expressions of grace and started seeing them as measurements of superiority. If you had visions, you were spiritual. If you didn't, maybe you weren't really filled with the Spirit at all. If you spoke in tongues, you had authority. If you forgave too easily, you had compromised.

Montanism thrived on that kind of thinking. It promised a return to the intensity of Pentecost, but it delivered something darker—a Christianity where gifts mattered more than love, where prophecy trumped Scripture, and where unity was sacrificed for purity.

Tertullian embraced it all.

He didn't deny the resurrection. He didn't abandon the gospel. He didn't stop confessing Jesus as Lord. But he made spiritual experiences the center of his faith instead of the fruit of it. And in doing so, he drifted from the very thing he claimed to be defending.

The apostle Paul had warned the Corinthians about this. He told them the Spirit gives different gifts to different people for the common good. He reminded them that love outlasts prophecy, tongues, and knowledge. He said if someone spoke in tongues but didn't have love, they were just making noise.

Montanus didn't build a movement on love. He built it on the idea that new prophetic utterances were bringing Scripture to its mature completion—that fresh revelations from the Spirit held authority alongside the apostles' words.

And Tertullian, in all his intelligence, fell for it.

Not because he stopped caring about Jesus. But because he started caring more about proving he was right.

His writings became sharper. His standards became stricter. His patience with other believers evaporated. He began to treat the church not as a body to serve but as a system to correct. And when it wouldn't bend to his vision, he walked away.

By the time he died—likely sometime in the 220s—Tertullian had become a cautionary tale. A man who saw genuine miracles. A man who defended the faith with brilliance. A man who helped shape Christian theology for centuries.

And a man who ended his life separated from the church he once championed.

Because he forgot that gifts without unity become weapons. That passion without humility becomes pride. That spiritual experiences without gospel centering become idols.

Tertullian saw the Spirit move in Carthage. He wasn't lying. He wasn't exaggerating. He described what he witnessed with the same matter-of-fact tone he used for everything else.

But he made the mistake of thinking that power proved correctness. That intensity proved faithfulness. That if the Spirit was moving, then everything he believed must be right.

And when the church didn't follow him into Montanism, he assumed they had abandoned the Spirit.

He never considered that maybe he had abandoned them.

The tragedy isn't that Tertullian believed in spiritual gifts. The tragedy is that he made them the foundation instead of the fruit. He turned what should have been a sign of God's presence into a test of who belonged and who didn't. He confused ecstatic experience with spiritual maturity. And in doing so, he became the very thing he spent his early years fighting against—a man whose passion for truth led him away from it.

Tertullian's story doesn't answer every question about spiritual gifts. It doesn't settle whether they continued past the apostles or ceased with them. But it does force an uncomfortable question for anyone who takes church history seriously.

If a man this brilliant, this committed, this close to the apostolic age could drift from orthodoxy while pursuing spiritual power, what does that say about the rest of us?

And if he described tongues and prophecy and visions as normal parts of church life around 210 AD, what do we do with that?

Within five years, the claim that prophetic revelations carried binding authority became the foundation for a movement that fractured the church.

Tertullian witnessed genuine spiritual power. He possessed one of the sharpest theological minds in Christian history. He stood closer to the apostolic age than most believers ever would.

And he still drifted.

The church in Carthage continued after Tertullian left. Believers still gathered, and there's no reason to believe the Spirit stopped working among them. What we do know is that the church maintained the structure of apostolic teaching and communal discernment—the very things Tertullian abandoned in his pursuit of purity.

Because it happened.

And pretending it didn't won't make the questions go away.

CHUNK 05A–SEGUE WITH CLIFFHANGER

Tertullian proved two things: that gifts didn't cease—and that obsessing over them can lead you astray. He witnessed genuine power and still drifted from orthodoxy. His brilliance didn't save him. His experiences didn't anchor him. What mattered should have been simpler. And what threatens us today might be the same thing. The question is—are we making the same mistake?

CHUNK 05B–CLIFFHANGER RESOLUTION

Many of us are.

CHUNK 06–MODERN REFLECTION

Tertullian's story lands awkwardly for a lot of us.

Some churches insist that miraculous gifts like tongues, prophecy, and healing ceased after the last apostles died—or at least after the last people the apostles laid hands on. Tertullian's writings challenge that. Around 210 AD, he described spiritual gifts operating in the Carthage church as normal, present realities. He even challenged a heretic to produce the same—prophets, visions, interpretation of tongues—then declared that all these signs were readily available in his community without difficulty. That's not nostalgia. That's testimony. And it happened more than a century after the apostles were gone.

But Tertullian's drift into Montanism also confronts churches on the opposite extreme—those who prioritize miraculous experiences so heavily that gifts become the measure of faithfulness. If you've had a vision, you're spiritual. If you speak in tongues, you're filled. If you haven't, well… maybe you're not really walking with Jesus. Tertullian fell into that trap. He began treating spiritual experiences as proof of correctness, and it led him into isolation.

Two extremes. Two opposite errors.

But here's what they have in common: both make the gifts the issue instead of making Jesus the issue.

One says, "God doesn't work that way anymore," and limits what the Spirit can do. The other says, "If you haven't experienced this, something's wrong with you," and turns grace into a test. One tries to protect orthodoxy by controlling the Spirit. The other tries to prove intimacy by elevating experiences.

Neither keeps Jesus at the center.

And maybe that's the real question—not whether gifts have ceased or continued, but whether we're satisfied with Jesus Himself.

CHUNK 07–PERSONAL REFLECTION

Let's be honest.

Some of you have cut off fellowship with believers because they claim to speak in tongues or experience prophecy. You know for a fact that they don't have the real Holy Spirit, so they must be under demonic influence or caught up in delusion. They must be either faking it or spiritually deceived. Because of that, no matter what the fruit is in their life, you've drawn a line and walked away.

And some of you have done the exact opposite. You've cut off fellowship with believers who don't speak in tongues or embrace charismatic experiences. You know for a fact that they don't have the Holy Spirit, so they must be under demonic influence or are caught up in deception. They must be either hardened or spiritually dead. So, because of that, no matter what the fruit is in their life, you've drawn the same line and walked away.

So here's the question: Does your eternal destiny depend on getting this right?

If you're wrong about gifts—if a cessationist stands before Jesus and discovers the Spirit was still giving tongues, or a continuationist discovers they ceased—does that somehow undo the cross? Does the blood of Jesus lose its power because you misunderstood spiritual gifts?

Does the resurrection become invalid because you drew the wrong theological line?

If you think it does—if you've made this issue a test of someone's salvation or spiritual authenticity—maybe you need to stop studying the miraculous and start studying grace.

Because grace is what holds us when we're wrong. Grace is what unites us when we disagree. And grace is what Jesus offers whether we speak in tongues or don't, whether we believe gifts have ceased or continue.

Tertullian had brilliant theology. He witnessed spiritual power. And he still drifted—because he forgot that unity in Jesus matters more than being right about everything else.

So what would it look like to lay down the need to win this argument? To stop measuring spiritual authenticity by gifts and start measuring it by fruit? To return to the simplicity of knowing Jesus—and trusting that He's big enough to hold both sides of this debate without requiring us to destroy each other over it?

Maybe that's where the real miracle is.

CHUNK 08–VERBATIM OUTRO

If this story of Tertullian's drift from gifts to heresy challenged or encouraged you, share it with a friend–they might really need to hear it. Make sure you go to ThatsJesus.org for other COACH episodes and resources.

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CHUNK 09A–PERSONAL HUMOR

Seventy episodes, six months of work, and I still haven't broken a hundred downloads on any single one—so if you're listening right now, congratulations, you're officially part of an elite group of dozens.

CHUNK 09B–PERSONAL HUMILITY

After six months and over seventy episodes with barely any traction, I've had to ask myself why I'm still doing this—and the answer is simple: because Jesus is worth talking about, even if nobody's listening yet.

CHUNK 10–QUOTES AND SOURCES

Quote 1: Tertullian's claim that all signs of spiritual gifts were readily available in his community.

Category: Generalized

Source: Tertullian. (1995). Against Marcion, Book V, Chapter 8. In P. Holmes (Trans.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3. Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 9781565630826.

Quote 2: Description of a woman receiving visions/revelations during worship that were examined by church leaders and received as sound encouragement for the church body.

Category: Summarized

Source: Tertullian. (1995). On the Soul. In P. Holmes (Trans.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3. Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 9781565630826.

Quote 3: Augustine's reference to a small community of Tertullian's followers (called Tertullianists) that persisted in North Africa for generations after his death.

Category: Paraphrased

Source: Augustine. (2003). On Heresies (De Haeresibus), section 86. In On Christian Belief (J.B. Russell, Trans.). Hackett Publishing. ISBN 9780872206298.

Quote 4: Ancient critics' characterization that Montanist teaching implied the age of the Son had ended and the age of the Spirit (Paraclete) had begun.

Category: Generalized

Source: Epiphanius. (1987). The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Book II and III (Section 48, on Montanists). (F. Williams, Trans.). Brill. ISBN 9789004079267.

CHUNK 11–CONTRARY AND SKEPTICAL SOURCES

1. Cessationist Interpretation of Early Church Gifts

Some conservative evangelical scholars argue that the spiritual gifts Tertullian described were not genuine manifestations of the Holy Spirit but either natural abilities misattributed to divine intervention or erroneous theological interpretations carried over from Montanist influence.

Source: MacArthur, John. (1992). Charismatic Chaos. Zondervan. ISBN 9780310575726.

2. Skeptical View of Patristic Miracle Reports

Critical historians suggest that accounts of spiritual gifts and miraculous phenomena in early Christian writings, including Tertullian's descriptions, reflect literary conventions and apologetic strategies rather than historical events, serving primarily to bolster theological claims against rival movements.

Source: Moss, Candida R. (2013). The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom. HarperOne. ISBN 9780062104540.

3. Montanism as Proto-Feminist Movement

Some feminist theologians and historians argue that Montanism was unfairly condemned by patriarchal church structures threatened by female prophetic leadership, and that Tertullian's alignment with the movement represented progressive gender equality rather than theological deviation.

Source: Trevett, Christine. (1996). Montanism: Gender, Authority and the New Prophecy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521414425.

4. Psychological Explanation of Ecstatic Prophecy

Secular historians and psychologists propose that the ecstatic prophecies of Montanism, including those Tertullian endorsed, were likely products of dissociative states, group psychology, or neurological conditions rather than divine revelation, comparable to phenomena in other religious traditions.

Source: Bourguignon, Erika. (1976). Possession. Chandler & Sharp Publishers. ISBN 9780883191347.

5. Tertullian's Orthodoxy Questioned

Some church historians argue that Tertullian was never fully orthodox even before his Montanist phase, pointing to his rigorist tendencies, subordinationist Trinitarian formulations, and authoritarian ecclesiology as evidence of fundamental theological problems throughout his career.

Source: Barnes, Timothy D. (1985). Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198266938.

6. Montanism as Authentic Charismatic Christianity

Pentecostal and charismatic historians argue that Montanism represented genuine Spirit-filled Christianity that was unjustly suppressed by an increasingly institutionalized and spiritually dead orthodox church, and that Tertullian's embrace of the movement demonstrated spiritual discernment rather than doctrinal drift.

Source: Burgess, Stanley M. & van der Maas, Eduard M. (Eds.). (2002). The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Zondervan. ISBN 9780310224815.

7. Scholarly Skepticism About Tertullian's Authorship

Some textual critics question whether all works attributed to Tertullian were actually written by him, suggesting that later Montanist editors may have altered his texts or that some anti-Montanist passages were interpolated by orthodox copyists, making it difficult to determine his actual theological positions.

Source: Dunn, Geoffrey D. (2004). Tertullian. Routledge. ISBN 9780415249089.

8. Rationalist Rejection of All Supernatural Claims

Skeptical historians and philosophers argue that both orthodox Christianity and Montanism made equally unfounded supernatural claims, and that Tertullian's descriptions of tongues, prophecy, and visions have no more historical credibility than any other ancient religious phenomena attributed to divine intervention.

Source: Ehrman, Bart D. (2003). Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195141832.

9. Sociological Explanation of Tertullian's Separation

Social historians propose that Tertullian's break with mainstream Christianity was primarily driven by social and political factors—class tensions, regional identity, or personal conflicts with church leadership—rather than genuine theological conviction about spiritual gifts or prophetic authority.

Source: Frend, W.H.C. (1984). The Rise of Christianity. Fortress Press. ISBN 9780800619312.

10. Postmodern Deconstruction of Orthodox/Heresy Categories

Some contemporary scholars argue that the entire framework of "orthodox" versus "heretical" is anachronistic when applied to the second and third centuries, and that Tertullian's Montanism and the catholic church's opposition represent equally valid expressions of early Christian diversity rather than theological deviation versus truth.

Source: Bauer, Walter. (1971). Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. Fortress Press. ISBN 9780800604240.

CHUNK 12–ANCIENT ORTHODOX SOURCES

Tertullian. (1995). On the Soul. In P. Holmes (Trans.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3. Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 9781565630826.

Tertullian. (1995). Against Marcion. In P. Holmes (Trans.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3. Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 9781565630826.

Eusebius. (1990). Ecclesiastical History. Penguin Classics. ISBN 9780140445350.

Irenaeus. (1992). Against Heresies. (D.J. Unger, Trans.). Paulist Press. ISBN 9780809104543.

Augustine. (2003). City of God. (H. Bettenson, Trans.). Penguin Classics. ISBN 9780140448948.

Epiphanius. (1987). The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis. (F. Williams, Trans.). Brill. ISBN 9789004079267.

Jerome. (1893). Lives of Illustrious Men. In Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 3. Christian Literature Publishing.

CHUNK 13–MODERN ORTHODOX SOURCES

Barnes, Timothy D. (1985). Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198266938.

Ferguson, Everett. (2005). Church History: Volume One, From Christ to the Pre-Reformation. Zondervan. ISBN 9780310205807.

Olson, Roger E. (1999). The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform. InterVarsity Press. ISBN 9780830815050.

González, Justo L. (2010). The Story of Christianity, Vol. 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. HarperOne. ISBN 9780061855887.

Kelly, J.N.D. (1978). Early Christian Doctrines. HarperOne. ISBN 9780060643348.

Chadwick, Henry. (1993). The Early Church. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140231991.

Pelikan, Jaroslav. (1975). The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 1, The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226653716.

Brown, Harold O.J. (2000). Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church. Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 9781565635159.

Keener, Craig S. (2011). Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts. Baker Academic. ISBN 9780801039522.

Hurtado, Larry W. (2003). Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802831675.

Wright, N.T. (2003). The Resurrection of the Son of God. Fortress Press. ISBN 9780800626792.

McGrath, Alister E. (2013). Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution—A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First. HarperOne. ISBN 9780061436864.

Stark, Rodney. (1997). The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries. HarperOne. ISBN 9780060677015.

Bruce, F.F. (1995). The Spreading Flame: The Rise and Progress of Christianity from Its First Beginnings to the Conversion of the English. Paternoster Press. ISBN 9780853645227.

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