Gospel of Marcion

The Gospel of Marcion (or the Gospel of the Lord, or the Evangelion) was part of a separate Biblical canon by Marcion of Sinope,[1] an early Gnostic teacher who was an important figure in Marcionism[2] and was was excommunicated from the Church in Rome as a heretic.[3]

Marcion believed, as many Gnostics did, that Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible was ultimately not the true God but was responsible for creating the world. He believed that the Father was the true God who had sent Jesus.[4]

Most scholars are aligned with the traditional view that Marcion himself created this gospel by cutting away at the Gospel of Luke,[5] though there have been arguments that favor the idea that the Gospel of Marcion comes before all the other gospels.[6][7][8]

Reception

Many church fathers and theologians believed that Marcion was a heretic or even an antichrist, such as Irenaeus in his Against Heresies, Tertullian in his Against Marcion, and Epiphanus in his Panarion.[9]

Jerome accused Marcion of mutilating the Gospel of Luke and the writings of Paul, and Origen stated that Marcion cut out the necessary parts of the gospels.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Ehrman, Bart D. (2005) [2003]. "At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites". Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 95–112. doi:10.1017/s0009640700110273. ISBN 978-0-19-518249-1. LCCN 2003053097. S2CID 152458823.
  2. ↑ BeDuhn, Jason David (2013). The first New Testament: Marcion's scriptural canon. Salem, Oregon: Polebridge Press. ISBN 978-1-59815-131-2.
  3. ↑ Harnack 1921, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Ehrman, Bart D. (2005) [2003]. "At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites". Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 95–112. doi:10.1017/s0009640700110273. ISBN 978-0-19-518249-1. LCCN 2003053097. S2CID 152458823.
  5. ↑ Bernier, Jonathan (2022). Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament. Baker Academic. ISBN 978-1-4934-3467-1. According to late second- and early third-century fathers, Marcion (who was active in Rome in probably the 140s) produced a version of Luke's Gospel shorn of material that he found to be doctrinally unacceptable. For the most part, critical scholarship has been content to affirm these patristic reports.
  6. ↑ BeDuhn, Jason David (2013). The first New Testament: Marcion's scriptural canon. Salem, Oregon: Polebridge Press. ISBN 978-1-59815-131-2.
  7. ↑ Klinghardt, Matthias (2021). The oldest gospel and the formation of the canonical gospels. Biblical Tools and Studies (2nd ed.). Leuven: Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-4310-0. OCLC 1238089165. 2 volumes.
  8. ↑ Vinzent, Markus (2014). Marcion and the dating of the synoptic gospels. Leuven: Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-3027-8. OCLC 870847884.
  9. ↑ Kaatz, K.W. (2012). Early Controversies and the Growth of Christianity. Praeger Series on the Ancient World. ABC-CLIO. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-313-38360-1. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  10. ↑ Poulos, ~ Alex (2019-08-29). "Text Criticism and Biblical Authority in Origen's Homily on Ps 77". Alex Poulos, PhD. Retrieved 2026-06-07.
  11. https://books.google.com/books?id=QLQ5EAAAQBAJ&dq=Rethinking+the+Dates+of+the+New+Testament+Marcion%27s+Gospel&pg=PT61
  12. https://archive.org/details/GramagliaMarcioneEIlVangeloDiLuca
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