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  • Rawls repeats the common charge that Hellenism had corrupted Christianity, tempting Christians to adopt various heresies, including gnosticism, docetism, manicheanism, and montanism.

    Matthew Yglesias » Before There Was Early Rawls… 2007

  • As I have seldom heard of any sect, except the Friends, who did not challenge as much authority as it could possibly get over persons not associated with it, this would amount to a universal proscription of religion; but Locke's principle might at any rate be invoked against Ultra-montanism in some circumstances.

    On Compromise John Morley 1880

  • Orangeism on the one hand, and of Catholicism, Romanism, and Ultra - montanism on the other, -- let us for a moment get beyond all these

    Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 John Bright 1850

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