![The History of the Early Church show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/060/344/small/the-history-of-the-early-church.jpg)
Summary: The Golden Age of Antonine Rome came to an end with wars and plague and more (surprise) pagan persecution of Christians. As a result, the sectarian and apocalyptic fervor of earlier decades reappeared in the Church, and it reappeared with a vengeance in the heresy of Montanism.