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- A native of Sinope in Pontus, he was born c. 85 and must have died c. 159, since there is no suggestion in our sources that he survived until the reign of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (161 – 180).
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Marcion held Jesus to be the son of the Heavenly Father but understood the incarnation in a docetic manner, i.e. that Jesus' body was only an imitation of a material body, and consequently denied Jesus' physical and bodily birth, death, and resurrection.
Marcion of Sinope (ca. 110-160 C.E.) was a Christian theologian who was excommunicated by the early church at Rome as a heretic; Nevertheless, his teachings were influential during the second century, and a few centuries after, thus forming a counter-point to emerging orthodoxy.
A native of Sinope in Pontus, he was born c. 85 and must have died c. 159, since there is no suggestion in our sources that he survived until the reign of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (161 – 180).
Marcionism was an early Christian dualistic belief system that originated with the teachings of Marcion of Sinope in Rome around 144 AD. Marcion was an early Christian theologian, evangelist, and an important figure in early Christianity. He was the son of a bishop of Sinope in Pontus.
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.
May 1, 2024 · Marcion of Pontus (flourished 2nd century ce, Asia Minor) was a Christian heretic. Although Marcion is known only through reports and quotations from his orthodox opponents, especially Tertullian ’s Adversus Marcionem (“Against Marcion”), the principal outlines of his teaching seem clear.
Marcion wrote the Antitheses to show the differences between the god of the Old Testament and the true God. Marcion was excommunicated by the church at Rome circa 144 AD, but he succeeded in establishing churches of his own to rival the orthodox Church for the next two centuries.
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