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Marcionite
Marcionite Mar"cion*ite, n. (Eccl. Hist) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. --Brande & C.

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- Marcionites is thought to have been primarily Docetic, denying the human nature of Jesus. This may have been due to the unwillingness of Marcionites to...
- [2003]. "At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites". Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never...
- gospel was a later revised version of the Gospel of Luke rather than with Marcionite Priority. Marcion of Sinope (c. 85 – c. 160) is considered to be the founder...
- The anti-Marcionite prologues are three short prefaces to the gospels of Mark, Luke and John. No prologue to Matthew is known. They were originally written...
- [2003]. "At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites". Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never...
- reprehensibly, that he defended Mont****". At Rome, the Gnostics and Marcionites continued to preach against the Catholic Church. Biography portal Christianity...
- deviated from his own form of Christianity, mainly the Gnostics and Marcionites. In particular, he sought to disprove what he saw as incorrect interpretations...
- [2003]. "At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites". Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never...
- to "I believe because it is absurd", displaced from its original anti-Marcionite context into a personally religious one. Tertullian's phrase originated...
- ) The Marcionite Prologues to the Pauline Epistles, Adolf von Harnack, 1914. Moreover, Harnack noted: "We have indeed long known that Marcionite readings...