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Marcion of Sinope
Apostle John (left) and (according to Eisler) Marcion of Sinope (right), from Morgan Library MS 748, 11th century.[1]
Born
AD 85
Sinope, Bithynia and Pontus, Roman Empire
Died
AD 160
Anatolia, Roman Empire
Notable work
Gospel of Marcion
Theological work
Era
Patristic age
Tradition or movement
Marcionism
Main interests
Dualism, Nontrinitarianism
Marcion of Sinope (/ˈmɑːrkiən,-siən/; Ancient Greek: Μαρκίων[2][note 1]Σινώπης; c. 85 – c. 160) was a theologian[3] 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.[3][4][5] He considered himself a follower of Paul the Apostle, whom he believed to have been the only true apostle of Jesus Christ; his doctrine is called Marcionism.[3][4][6] Marcion published the earliest record of a canon of New Testament books.[3][7]
Early Church Fathers such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian denounced Marcion as a heretic or antichrist,[8] and he was excommunicated by the church of Rome around 144.[9] He published his own canon of Christian sacred scriptures,[3][10][11] which contained ten Pauline epistles (the Pastoral epistles were not included) and the Gospel of Marcion which historically is claimed to be an edited version of the Gospel of Luke.[3][12] Some modern scholars have theorized that Marcion's Gospel was the oldest, although this has been contested.
This made Marcionism a catalyst in the process of the development of the New Testament canon by forcing the proto-orthodox Church to respond to his canon.[3][13]
^Eisler, Robert (1938). The Enigma of the Fourth Apostle, Methuen & Co.,p. 158, plate XIII).
^First Apology of Justin Martyr, XXVI.5
^ abcdefghEhrman, Bart D. (2005) [2003]. "At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites". Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 95–112. doi:10.1017/s0009640700110273. ISBN 978-0-19-518249-1. LCCN 2003053097. S2CID 152458823.
^ abcDunn, James D. G. (2016). ""The Apostle of the Heretics": Paul, Valentinus, and Marcion". In Porter, Stanley E.; Yoon, David (eds.). Paul and Gnosis. Pauline Studies. Vol. 9. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 105–118. doi:10.1163/9789004316690_008. ISBN 978-90-04-31668-3. LCCN 2016009435. S2CID 171394481.
^BeDuhn 2015, p. 165.
^Knox 1942, p. 7.
^Westcott, Brooke Foss (1870). A general survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament, during the first four centuries.
^Kaatz, K.W. (2012). Early Controversies and the Growth of Christianity. Praeger Series on the Ancient World. ABC-CLIO. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-313-38360-1. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
^Harnack 1921, p. 17.
^Bruce 1988, p. 134.
^Knox 1942, p. 19.
^BeDuhn 2015, p. 166.
^Knox 1942, p. 3.
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