Bagamat kadalasang nakaakibat ang mga " prophetic ecstasies " at ang mga " imaginative interpretation of the Revelation , " ang Montanismo ay kinilala ni Westin na mayroong mga sumusunod na katangian : ( 1 ) an early church pietism , ( 2 ) a central emphasis on declaring the message of salvation , and " holiness in the light of the signs of the imminent end of the world " , ( 3 ) a view of laymen as " priests who ought earnestly to assume their priestly prerogatives " , and ( 4 ) an " insistence on the primitive pattern that it is possible to personally experience God ' s power through the work of the Holy Spirit " ( Westin 12  @-@  15 ).
