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Marcion of Sinope (/ ˈ m ɑːr k i ə n,-s i ə n /; Ancient Greek: Μαρκίων Σινώπης; c. 85 – c. 160) was a theologian in early Christianity. [3] [4] Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus Christ , who was distinct from the "vengeful" God ( Demiurge ) who had created the world.
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. Marcion played a significant role in the development of textual ...
Marcionism was an early Christian dualistic belief system that originated with the teachings of Marcion of Sinope in Rome around 144 AD. [1] Marcion was an early Christian theologian, [2] evangelist, [2] and an important figure in early Christianity. [2] [3] He was the son of a bishop of Sinope in Pontus. About the middle of the 2nd century ...
Marcion was a heretic who taught that the god of the Old Testament was not the true God, but Jesus Christ revealed the higher God. He wrote the Gospel of the Lord and the Antitheses, and established a canon of his own with ten Pauline epistles.
Marcion of Sinope transcribed the first Christian bible in 144 A.D. and is credited by scholars with the creation of New Testament canon. He proved that the deity represented in the Old Testament is different from the Christian God of the New Testament - and for this his books and followers were hunted down and destroyed in a period spanning 1,000 years.
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May 11, 2018 · Marcion was born in Sinope in AD 85 in the northern province of Pontus (in what is now Turkey) on the coast of the Black Sea. Marcion, the son of a bishop, was an intelligent, capable, hard, unbending, vain, rich, ambitious man. He made his way to Rome sometime between AD 135 and 139 and was accepted as Christian into the church there.
A chapter that explores Marcion of Sinope's views on Scripture and hermeneutics, and his influence on subsequent early Christian biblical interpretation. It examines Marcion's conception of two gods, his philological methods, and his legacy in Tertullian and Epiphanius.
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