THE SEARCH may be finally over for the long-lost base of an early Christian movement, thanks to the diligence of a U.S. seminary president whose team assembled clues leading to a place where the sectarians claimed a heaven-sent New Jerusalem would descend in end times.
Around 165 C.E. in Asia Minor, a charismatic Christian named Montanus began a movement guided by his ecstatic prophecies and those of two women prophets, Priscilla and Maximilla. The ascetic movement spread from ...