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Author : Sebastian Moll
Release : 2010
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Arch-heretic Marcion by : Sebastian Moll
Download or read book The Arch-heretic Marcion written by Sebastian Moll. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Edinburgh, 2009.
Author : Sebastian Moll
Release : 2009
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Book Synopsis At the Left Hand of Christ by : Sebastian Moll
Download or read book At the Left Hand of Christ written by Sebastian Moll. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcion is unanimously acknowledged to be one of the most important and most intriguing figures of the Early Church. In spite of this importance, there is no comprehensive up-to-date study on his life and thought. Thus, the desire to fill this gap within the academic world - which is inconvenient for both students and professors alike - has been my inspiration for writing this thesis. However, this work does not only aim at providing a complete study on Marcion for the twenty-first century, but also at ridding scholarship from several severe misconceptions regarding the arch-heretic. The main argument of my study is that previous scholarship has turned Marcion's exegesis of Scripture upside down. He did not find the inspiration for his doctrine in the teachings of the Apostle Paul, it is the Old Testament and its portrait of an inconsistent, vengeful and cruel God which forms the centre of his doctrine. Marcion does not understand the Old Testament in the light of the New, he interprets the New Testament in the light of the Old. This insight casts a new light on Marcion's place within the history of the Church, as the initiator of a fundamental crisis of the Old Testament in the second century. But not only did he have an enormous influence on Christian exegesis, he also stands at the beginning of the epochal fight between orthodoxy and heresy. As the first man to ever officially break with the Church, and whose biography would become a stereotype for future heresiologists, Marcion can rightfully claim the title of 'arch-heretic'.
Author : Judith Lieu
Release : 2015-03-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Marcion and the Making of a Heretic by : Judith Lieu
Download or read book Marcion and the Making of a Heretic written by Judith Lieu. This book was released on 2015-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores Marcion's ideas through his writings and the writings of early Christian polemicists who shaped the idea of heresy.
Author : Joseph B. Tyson
Release : 2006
Genre : Bible
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Book Synopsis Marcion and Luke-Acts by : Joseph B. Tyson
Download or read book Marcion and Luke-Acts written by Joseph B. Tyson. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the motives behind writing the canonical versions of Luke and Acts Building on recent scholarship that argues for a second-century date for the book of Acts, Marcion and Luke-Acts explores the probable context for the authorship not only of Acts but also of the canonical Gospel of Luke. Noted New Testament scholar Joseph B. Tyson proposes that both Acts and the final version of the Gospel of Luke were published at the time when Marcion of Pontus was beginning to proclaim his version of the Christian gospel, in the years 120-125 c.e. He suggests that although the author was subject to various influences, a prominent motivation was the need to provide the church with writings that would serve in its fight against Marcionite Christianity. Tyson positions the controversy with Marcion as a defining struggle over the very meaning of the Christian message and the author of Luke-Acts as a major participant in that contest. Suggesting that the primary emphases in Acts are best understood as responses to the Marcionite challenge, Tyson looks particularly at the portrait of Paul as a devoted Pharisaic Jew. He contends that this portrayal appears to have been formed by the author to counter the Marcionite understanding of Paul as rejecting both the Torah and the God of Israel. Tyson also points to stories that involve Peter and the Jerusalem apostles in Acts as arguments against the Marcionite claim that Paul was the only true apostle. Tyson concludes that the author of Acts made use of an earlier version of the Gospel of Luke and produced canonical Luke by adding, among other things, birth accounts and postresurrection narratives of Jesus.
Author : R. Joseph Hoffmann
Release : 2016-06-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity by : R. Joseph Hoffmann
Download or read book Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity written by R. Joseph Hoffmann. This book was released on 2016-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoffmann's Marcion was the first work after Harnack (1924) to call into question the patristic testimony concerning the "arch-heretic." In his work, Hoffmann challenged the conventional wisdom concerning the date, sources, and accuracy of reports on Marcion through careful and critical examination of patristic evidence. In Hoffmann's view, Marcion was the creator of the two-part canon. Theologically, his attempts to elevate Paul above the gospels ensured the enduring role of Paul in the history of the early church. Contrary to early views that Marcion was a gnostic, Hoffmann argued that Marcion was a man from an "earlier time" who demonstrates in his theology the living controversies of the early period: whether the Old Testament should be accepted or rejected; whether the God of the Old Testament and the God of the gospel are the same deity; and finally, whether the revelation of God represented in the teaching and person of Jesus Christ is definitive for the church.
