Marcionism

English Etymology en :af Marcion -ism + 1 Pronunciation en /ˈmɑrʃiəˌnɪzəm/ /ˈmɑrʃəˌnɪzəm/ /ˈmɑrsiəˌnɪzəm/ GA en /ˈmɑːʃiənɪzm/ /ˈmɑːʃiənɪzəm/ /ˈmɑːʃənɪzm/ /ˈmɑːʃənɪzəm/ RP Noun - en historical The teachings of Marcion of Sinope and his followers, a docetic form of early Christianity often but not universally considered Gnostic that rejected the spiritual authority of the Hebrew Tanakh (Old Testament) and the disciples and apostles other than Paul as serving the Demiurge. en 2001 Cyril O'Regan Gnostic Return in Modernity https://books.google.fr/books?id=B8XfhTm9pGYC&pg=PA62&newbks=0 62 Similarly, in Work on Myth, Hans Blumenberg Blumenberg once again makes a plea for Marcion being regarded as Gnostic... and makes no attempt to define Marcionisms relation-difference to Valentinianism... It is important to see what is at stake here... For in Marcion the truncation of the biblical text is not based on lack of respect for tradition, but its reification, and the dualistic separation of creation from redemption is not attended by the kind of fascination with the why and wherefore of an evil creation that is typical of Valentinianism and modern myths of Romanticism and Idealism or their precursor and successor discourses. en 2009 w:Diarmaid MacCulloch A History of Christianity 127 Penguin 2010 Gnosticism and Marcionism offered two possible futures for the Jesus cult. en Christianity General rejection of the Old Testament, its God, and its teachings. en October 7 2013 Giles Fraser https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/mail-wrong-god-deuteronomy-ralph-miliband How the Mail Got It Wrong, Again... The Guardian In the year 144, the church declared Marcion of Sinope, a rich shipping magnate and part-time theologian, a heretic for declaring the God of the Hebrew scriptures to be inferior to the God of the New Testament. But despite this condemnation, popular Marcionism has continued ever since. You hear Christians lapse into it all the time with the lazy argument, "Oh, that's just the Old Testament", when confronted by the claim that the Bible is violent. https://web.archive.org/web/20261018125927/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/mail-wrong-god-deuteronomy-ralph-miliband 18 October 2026 Related terms en Marcionite Marcionitism Marcionist Marcionitic Marcionitish Translations teachings of Marcion of Sinope Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 馬吉安主義 Mǎjí'ān zhǔyì Finnish: fi markionismi French: fr marcionisme m German: de Marcionismus m, de Markionismus m Polish: pl marcjonizm m-in Portuguese: pt marcionismo m References Marcionism n Anagrams en aciimmnors miRNAomics en eponyms en Gnosticism