Marcionism Religion

A Marcionism Religion is a Christian religion (of Marcionists) create by Marcion (whihch posits a radical distinction between the God of the Old Testament and the God revealed through Jesus Christ in the New Testament).

• Context:
  • It can believe in a higher, more benevolent God than the creator god of the Hebrew Bible, viewing the latter as a malevolent deity.
  • It can emphasize the Pauline epistles' centrality, as Paul the Apostle is regarded as the only true apostle of Jesus Christ.
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• Example(s):
  • one described in the works of Tertullian, who vigorously argued against Marcionism in his treatise Adversus Marcionem.
  • one who went to the Marcionite Church, which had a significant following in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, creating one of the first Christian canonical collections of texts, which excluded the Old Testament and focused on Luke's Gospel and Paul's epistles.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Catholicism, which embraces both the Old and New Testaments as sacred scripture and rejects the Marcionite dualism between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament.
  • Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, which also uphold the unity of the Old and New Testaments and do not subscribe to Marcion's dualistic theology.
• See: Cerdo (Gnostic), Tertullian, Early Christianity, Dualistic Cosmology, Belief System, Marcion of Sinope, Rome, Crucifixion of Jesus, Diversity in Early Christian Theology, Evangelism.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism Retrieved:2024-4-7.
  • Marcionism was an early Christian dualistic belief system that originated with the teachings of Marcion of Sinope in Rome around the year 144. 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. About the middle of the 2nd century (140–155) he traveled to Rome, where he joined the Syrian Gnostic Cerdo. Marcion preached that the benevolent God of the Gospel who sent Jesus Christ into the world as the savior was the true Supreme Being, different and opposed to the malevolent Demiurge or creator god, identified with the Hebrew God of the Old Testament. He considered himself a follower of Paul the Apostle, whom he believed to have been the only true apostle of Jesus Christ. Marcion's canon, possibly the first Christian canon ever compiled, consisted of eleven books: a gospel, which was a shorter version of the Gospel of Luke, and ten Pauline epistles. Marcion's canon rejected the entire Old Testament, along with all other epistles and gospels of what would become the 27-book New Testament canon, which during his life had yet to be compiled. Pauline epistles enjoy a prominent position in the Marcionite canon, since Paul was considered by Marcion to be Christ's only true apostle. Marcionism was denounced by its opponents as heresy and written against by the early Church Fathers – notably by Tertullian in his five-book treatise Adversus Marcionem (Against Marcion), in about 208. Marcion's writings are lost, though they were widely read and numerous manuscripts must have existed. Even so, many scholars claim it is possible to reconstruct and deduce a large part of ancient Marcionism through what later critics, especially Tertullian, said concerning Marcion.

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