Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century

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Cambridge University Press, Mar 26, 2015 - Religion
A comprehensive and authoritative account of the 'heretic' Marcion, this volume traces the development of the concept and language of heresy in the setting of an exploration of second-century Christian intellectual debate. Judith M. Lieu analyses accounts of Marcion by the major early Christian polemicists who shaped the idea of heresy, including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius of Salamis, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Ephraem Syrus. She examines Marcion's Gospel, Apostolikon, and Antitheses in detail and compares his principles with those of contemporary Christian and non-Christian thinkers, covering a wide range of controversial issues: the nature of God, the relation of the divine to creation, the person of Jesus, the interpretation of Scripture, the nature of salvation, and the appropriate lifestyle of adherents. In this innovative study, Marcion emerges as a distinctive, creative figure who addressed widespread concerns within second-century Christian diversity.
 

Contents

Whose Marcion?
7
Justin Martyr
15
Irenaeus and the shaping of a heretic
45
He was not what he seemed and what he was he falsified flesh
81
Theology and exegesis against Marcion
139
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176
Marcions Gospel
183
God
323
110
357
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358
Clement of Alexandria
367
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374
Origen
380
Community structures
395
Marcion and the making of the heretic
433

Beginning
213
Jesus
221
The Law of the Creator
227
Marcions Gospel strategy
233
Marcions other writings
270
Marcion in his secondcentury context
293

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Judith M. Lieu is Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. She has written numerous books, including I, II, and III John: A Commentary (2008), Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004), and Neither Jew nor Greek: Constructing Early Christianity (2002).

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