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| | Marcionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The premise of Marcionism is that many of the teachings of Christ (not Jesus — Marcion treated Jesus as being distinct from Christ) are incompatible with the god of the Jewish religion. | | | Marcion, on the contrary, treats the Catholic Church as one that 'follows the Testament of the Creator-God,' and directs the full force of his attack against this Testament and against the falsification of the Gospel and of the Pauline Epistles by the original Apostles and the writers of the Gospels. | | | Marcion went much further, rejecting the entire Hebrew Bible, and declaring that the God of the Hebrew Bible was a lesser demiurge, who had created the earth, but was (de-facto) the source of evil. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism
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| | Marcion, the Canon, the Law, and the Historical Jesus |
| | Marcion was expelled from the Roman Church in 144 CE. | | | Marcion came under the influence of the gnostic teacher Cedro "who believed that the God of the Old Testament was different from the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. | | | So Marcion taught that the God of the Old Testament was not the God of the New Testament. |
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http://www.christianorigins.com/marcion.html
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| | Adolf Von Harnack |
| | As Marcion held the Old Testament to be a book worthy of belief, though his disciple, Apelles, thought otherwise, he referred all its predictions to a Messiah whom the creator of the world is yet to send; and who, as a warlike hero, is to set up the earthly kingdom of the "just" God. | | | Marcion felt himself entrusted with this commission, and the church which he gathered recognized this vocation of his to be the reformer. | | | It will always be the glory of Marcion in the early history of the Church that he, the born heathen, could appreciate the religious criticism of the Old Testament religion as formerly exercised by Paul. |
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http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/library/marcion/Harnack.html
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| | MARCION - Online Information article about MARCION |
| | The distinctive teaching of Marcion originated in a comparison of the Old Testament with the gospel of Christ and the theology of the apostle Paul. | | | Marcion himself was the next raised up by the good God, to proclaim once more the true gospel. | | | It is not surprising, therefore, that even in the 2nd century the disciples of Marcion diverged in several directions. |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/MAL_MAR/MARCION.html
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| | The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Marcion |
| | The main points of Marcion's teaching were the rejection of the Old Testament and a distinction between the Supreme God of goodness and an inferior God of justice, who was the Creator and God of the Jews. | | | Marcion was convinced that among the early apostolic leaders only Paul understood the significance of Jesus Christ as the messenger of the Supreme God. | | | Marcion, the son of the bishop of Sinope (a sea-port of Pontus along the Black Sea) who had become a wealthy ship-owner, stood before the presbyters to expound his teachings in order to win others to his point of view. |
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| | Marcion |
| | Marcion taught that the god of the Old Testament was not the true God but rather that the true and higher God had been revealed only with Jesus Christ. | | | Marcion's canon consisted of the Euangelion, or the Gospel of the Lord, and the Apostolikon, ten epistles of Paul, not including the pastorals. | | | The Foreign God and the Sudden Christ: Theology and Christology in Marcion's Gospel Redaction |
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/marcion.html
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| | Marcion - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Marcion |
| | Marcion taught that there were two gods, proclaiming that the stern, lawgiving, creator God of the Old Testament, and the good, merciful God of the New Testament were different. | | | Marcion also rejected the real incarnation of Christ, claiming that he was a manifestation of the Father. | | | Marcionism emphasized asceticism and influenced the developments of Manichaeism Manichaeism (măn`ĭkēĭzəm) or Manichaeanism (mănĭkē`ənĭzəm), religion founded by Mani (c.216–c.276). |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Marcion
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| | CHURCH FATHERS: Against Marcion, Book I (Tertullian) |
| | Marcion's special and principal work is the separation of the law and the gospel; and his disciples will not deny that in this point they have their very best pretext for initiating and confirming themselves in his heresy. | | | Marcion's rejection of such evidence for his god savours of impudence and malignity. | | | Marcion's scheme absurdly defective, not furnishing evidence for his new god's existence, which should at least be able to compete with the full evidence of the Creator. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/03121.htm
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| | The Canon of Marcion the heretic |
| | Marcion believed that the God of the Old Testament was an evil creator god that Jesus came to destroy. | | | Marcion accepted only the gospel of Luke to the exclusion of the other three gospels. | | | Marcion was born about 110 AD, being the son of the wealthy Bishop of Sinope in Pontus. |
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http://www.bible.ca/b-canon-canon-of-marcion.htm
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| | Gnosticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Marcion believed that this cosmos in which we live bears witness to the existence of an inflexible, legalistic, and sometimes spiteful and vengeful God. | | | According to Marcion, the god who controls this realm is a being who is intent on preserving his autonomy and power even at the expense of the (human) beings whom he created. | | | Quite the contrary, Marcion believed that he knew the God of this realm all too well, and that He was not worthy of the devotion and obedience that He demanded. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/gnostic.htm
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| | Marcion of Sinope |
| | Marcion's primary thesis was that Jesus had come to reveal to the world a supreme God who was previously unknown to the world; a God who was vastly different from the Creator God of the Old Testament writings. | | | Marcion immediately began his quest to organize a body of believers that would rival the church in Rome, and was so successful in doing so that he, his followers, and his teaching came to be feared as the most dangerous foe the church faced in the second century. | | | The God of the OT was characterized by Marcion as a "demiurgus" -- i.e., a lesser, secondary deity, who was a god, in a sense, but not the supreme God of the universe. |
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http://www.zianet.com/maxey/reflx210.htm
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| | The Ghost of Marcion; spirit of lawlessness |
| | Marcion taught that the entire Hebrew Bible should be rejected because it belonged to an evil, inferior god, and not to the God revealed by Jesus of Nazareth. | | | Not all followers of the Messiah were influenced by the nomophobic, anti-Old Testament, pro-Paul gospel of Marcion. | | | Marcion’s anti-Jewish; pro-Paul congregations spread throughout the Roman Empire and soon became a major threat to the Messianic faith. |
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http://www.proclaimtheword.org/marcion.html
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| | EARLY SAINTS, SINNERS, AND SCHOLARS (This Rock: July/August 1996) |
| | 160) as "an important second-century heretical theologian." Although Marcion was the son of a bishop, he taught that the God of the Old Testament was different from the God of Jesus in the New Testament. | | | In 144 Marcion's views were firmly repudiated, and he was excommunicated from the Church. | | | Marcion's lasting significance lies in the fact his views forced the early Church to identify precisely which books would make up the Christian Bible. |
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http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1996/9607hist.asp
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| | Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III |
| | Marcion's Pretensions as an Amender of the Gospel. | | | Marcion has laid down the position, that Christ who in the days of Tiberius was, by a previously unknown god, revealed for the salvation of all nations, is a different being from Him who was ordained by God the Creator for the restoration of the Jewish state, and who is yet to come. | | | Incidental Rebukes of Marcion's Doctrine of Celibacy, and of His Altering of the Text of the Gospel. |
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http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-03/anf03-31.htm
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| | Tertullian : Adversus Marcionem |
| | Marcion's 'principle belief' is identified as coming from the school of Epicurus in 19:7, the impassible and indifferent deity. | | | Marcion was a Jew-hater, who rejected the Old Testament, and any bits of the New Testament, books or passages, which disagreed with him. | | | Books 1 and 2 refute Marcion's dualism; Book 3 shows that Jesus is the messiah of the Old Testament. |
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http://www.tertullian.org/works/adversus_marcionem.htm
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| | Marcion and Marcionite Gnosticism |
| | Marcion's Antitheses sought to demonstrate the contradictions between the Hebrew Bible and Christian writings and the conflict between their two different Gods. | | | Marcion of Pontus succeeded him, and developed his doctrine." AH, 1.27.1, AF, 352. | | | According to Brooke Westcott, Marcion's Canon is "the first of which there is any record."18 Marcion's Canon demonstrated a two-fold division: The Gospel and The Apostle.19 The Gospel was an highly edited version of Luke and The Apostle was composed of ten Pauline Epistles. |
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| | Center for Marcionite Research |
| | According to Marcion, Jesus Christ unveiled a new God, which was not the same deity of the Hebrew scriptures. | | | Nor was Jesus, according to Marcion, the Messiah prophesied by the prophets of old - the Messiah to Israel, who was to be a warrior, was still yet to come, to fulfil the national expectations and promises of that nation. | | | For further information on Marcion one may read the various articles and texts available at The Center for Marcionite Research Library, which also includes a full version of the lost Gospel of Marcion (now hyperlinked to two of the ancient sources used for its reconstruction, Tertullian's Adversus Marcionem and Epiphanius' Panarion).Thank you for visiting! |
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| | The Ecole Glossary |
| | In his teachings, he opposed the Jewish scriptures to new Christian teachings going so far as to claim that the God of the Hebrew scriptures was an evil, creator God and could not therefore be the same God as the father of Jesus Christ. | | | Marcion succeeded in building his own church which survived in the East until the fifth century. | | | Thus, Marcion did contribute positively to the history of Christianity by providing the idea of a New Testament canon and forcing the orthodox church to establish its own list of texts. |
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http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/marcion.html
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| | Theology WebSite: Church History Study Helps: Marcion |
| | Marcion gathered his followers into a separated church, for whom he provided an official canon of sacred books: ten letters of Paul (he did not know of, or decided not to include the Pastoral Epistles of Paul) and a form of the Gospel of Luke. | | | Born in Sinope in Asia Minor where he was a wealathy Christian ship owner, Marcion came to Rome about 139 AD and joined the Roman congregation, where he began teaching his own understanding of the Gospel, which was based on an interpretation of the letters of Paul. | | | The community which he built spread quickly over wide areas and existed as a rival to orthodox churches well into the fifth century. |
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| | Marcion (d. c.160) |
| | English Transslation: Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God. | | | Laurence H. Stookey, "Marcion, Typology and Lectionary Preaching," Worship 66.3 (1992): 251-262. | | | A Reconstruction of Marcion's Text to the Galatians. |
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http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/marcion.php
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| | Marcion: Gospel of the Lord and Other Writings |
| | The entirety of The Gospel of the Lord by Marcion is presented below. | | | Against Marcion, Book 4 (the principal book dealing with Marcion's Gospel) | | | Marcion: Gospel of the Lord and Other Writings |
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http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/library/marcionsection.htm
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| | The Library |
| | The entirety of the Gospel of Marcion is divided into 6 sections. | | | Third Discourse to Hypatius Against Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan (Part I) | | | Third Discourse to Hypatius Against Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan (Part II) |
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