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Marcion of Sinope (/ ˈ m ɑːr k i ə n,-s i ə n /; Ancient Greek: Μαρκίων [2] [note 1] Σινώπης; c. 85 – c. 160) was a theologian [3] in early Christianity. [3] [4] Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus Christ, who was distinct from the "vengeful" God who had created the world.
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According to Tertullian and other writers of the mainstream Church, the movement known as Marcionism began with the teachings and excommunication of Marcion from the Church of Rome around 144 C.E. Marcion was reportedly a wealthy shipowner, the son of a bishop of Sinope of Pontus, Asia Minor. He arrived in Rome somewhere around 140 C.E., soon after...
Marcion declared that Christianity was distinct from and in opposition to Judaism. He rejected the entire Hebrew Bible, and declared that the God of the Hebrew Bible was a lesser demiurge, who had created the earth, but was (de facto)the source of evil. The premise of Marcionism is that many of the teachings of Christ are incompatible with the acti...
In various popular sources, Marcion is often reckoned among the Gnostics, but as the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.) puts it, "it is clear that he would have had little sympathy with their mythological speculations" (p. 1034). In 1911, Henry Wace stated: "A modern divine would turn away from the dreams of Valentinianism in silen...
In Lost Christianities, Bart Ehrman contrasts the Marcionites with the Ebionites as polar ends of a spectrum with regard to the Old Testament. Ehrman acknowledges many of Marcion's ideas are very close to what is known today as "Gnosticism," especially its rejection of the Jewish God, the Old Testament, and the material world, and his elevation of ...
According to a remark by Origen (Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew15.3), Marcion "prohibited allegorical interpretations of the scripture." Tertullian disputed this in his treatise against Marcion, as did Henry Wace: 1. "The story proceeds to say that he asked the Roman presbyters to explain the texts, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,"...
Historic Marcionism, and the church Marcion himself established, appeared to die out around the fifth century. However, Marcion's influence and criticism of the Old Testament are discussed to this very day. Marcionism is discussed in recent textbooks on early Christianity, such as Lost Christianities, by Bart Ehrman. Marcion claimed to find problem...
Baker, David L. Two Testaments, One Bible. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1991. ISBN 978-0851114224.Legge, Francis. Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity, From 330 B.C.E. to 330 C.E. New York: University Books, 1964. ISBN 978-0844612805.McGowan, Andrew. Journal of Early Christian Studies, Vol. 9.Retrieved June 16, 2008.Mead, G.R.S. Gospel of Marcion Fragments of a Faith Forgotten.London and Benares, 1900.Jan 6, 2014 · The First New Testament upends many standard facts in the field of New Testament and early Christian studies, such as the longstanding claim that Marcion’s Christian Bible contained texts mutilated to conform to his distinctive beliefs.
Marcion’s Bible. As we noted in the passage from Tertullian (Marc. 1.19.4), Marcion’s philological work on the Scriptures was expressly directed to revealing the contradiction between the OT and NT, the Jewish jealous god and the good God, who is the Father of Jesus (Mühlenberg 1979).
Marcion is one of the most intriguing yet elusive figures in early Christian history. It is proof of his prominence that, among the diverse forms of Christianity that flourished in the second century, his was the most frequently and forcefully attacked by anti-heretical writers, and was apparently perceived as the most dangerous.
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The movement known as Marcionism was founded in the second century by Marcion, an early Christian teacher from Sinope in Asia Minor. Of the many early Christian sects the Marcionites were among the most successful, creating a parallel organization to the Catholic Church.
May 21, 2018 · MARCION (d. 160?), founder of an independent Christian church in the second century and influential exponent of the idea that God's sole attribute is goodness. Marcion was born toward the end of the first century in Sinope, a city in Pontus, on the southern coast of the Black Sea.
