Nearly fourteen centuries before Martin Luther challenged the authority of medieval Rome, Marcion of Sinope had already confronted the deeper error from which Rome itself ultimately inherited its theology. Marcion…
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The theology preserved in Marcion’s epistles is not a theology of legal bookkeeping, nor a doctrine in which God the Father must be reconciled to mankind by the punishment of…
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The Acts of Peter, here dated to 181 C.E., should not be read merely as a pious romance about Peter defeating Simon Magus in Rome. It is better understood as…
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The Dialekticon is an ecclesiastical book of the Marcionite Church, consisting of Marcionite dialogues and disputations. Dialogue and disputation were ancient forms of Christian literature, used for instruction, controversy, catechesis,…
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Papyrus 69 is sometimes presented as if it were a surviving manuscript witness to the Evangelicon. This claim is not established. The Marcionite Church does not accept Papyrus 69 as…
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The Marcionite Church teaches plainly that babies, infants, and young children before moral discernment are not born guilty. They do not enter the world stained with Adamic guilt. They do…
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The Marcionite Church is pleased to announce the release of the Didascalicon, the Church’s formal book of catechesis, doctrine, and ecclesiastical instruction. The word Didascalicon means a book of teaching.…
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From the vantage point of the Marcionite Church, the moment when the Lord renames Simon as “Peter” is not a charter for Petrine supremacy or for the later claims of…
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The Dialogue of Adamantius (De recta in deum fide) is a valid and often reliable witness for reconstructing the Evangelicon. Read with sober controls and in conversation with Tertullian, Epiphanius,…
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The Marcionite Church affirms the authenticity of the relic known as the Shroud of Turin and identifies it with the ancient Image of Edessa (the Mandylion). We hold that in…
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