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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 of Sinope was active in Rome in the middle of the second century ce. Marcion’s views on Scripture and hermeneutics led to a separation from the Church in Rome and the creation of a concurrent Marcionite community. This chapter examines Marcion’s legacy within subsequent early Christian biblical interpretation, seen most clearly in ...
Marcion wrote the Antitheses to show the differences between the god of the Old Testament and the true God. Marcion was excommunicated from the Roman church c. 144 CE, but he succeeded in establishing churches of his own to rival the catholic Church for the next two centuries.
Marcion of Sinope ( / ˈmɑːrkiən, - siən /; Ancient Greek: Μαρκίων Σινώπης; c. 85 – c. 160) was a theologian in early Christianity. Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus Christ, who was distinct from the "vengeful" God ( Demiurge) who had created the world.
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).
Mar 28, 2008 · In that connection, Marcion has commanded attention on two major topics: the church’s appropriation of the scriptures of Judaism (which it came to call the ‘Old Testament’), and the emergence of a canon of specifically Christian scriptures (a ‘New Testament’).
Nov 25, 2011 · Abstract. Of all the heterodox figures that flourished in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, Marcion's views were attacked the most frequently and extensively. Hegesippus, Justin Martyr, and Theophilus of Antioch wrote the earliest known refutations, but none survive.
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