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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In the Evangelicon, John the Baptist appears as the divinely sent forerunner and prophet, the first true prophet of Christ’s testament, who prepares, bears witness, and then yields the stage…
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The Marcionite Church rejects the allegorical reading of the Hebrew Bible as a deceptive enterprise rooted not in revelation but in desperation. Allegory is the interpretive practice of assigning symbolic…
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Tertullian and Epiphanius both report that the Lord’s Prayer they found in Marcion’s Evangelicon—located at Evangelicon 10: 2-4—was the very prayer their own congregations recited. Yet Tertullian, almost in passing,…
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When the Roman governor Pliny the Younger wrote to Emperor Trajan around 112 AD, he unknowingly preserved one of the earliest and most evident testimonies of the true Christian Church—not…
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ was not only the defeat of death. It was the public overthrow of the principalities, powers, rulers, and devils that held mankind in bondage through…
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In the eighth chapter of his First Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul warns the Church against idolatry and against the pride that may disguise itself as spiritual knowledge.…
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In the tenth chapter of his First Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul—the true apostle of Jesus Christ—offers a profound meditation on suffering, temptation, and the development of the…
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