Anatolian Christian theologian (c.85–c.160)
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A second-century theologian who split God in two—Christ's merciful father versus the Old Testament's harsh creator—and got himself excommunicated for it. His personal scripture list, heavy on Paul and light on everything else, forced the early church to clarify which books actually counted.
Marcion of Sinope preached around 85 to 160 that Jesus came from a different God than the one who made the world, a "vengeful" Demiurge he wanted nothing to do with. He saw Paul as the sole legitimate apostle and built his theology, later called Marcionism, on that foundation. Around 144 the church of Rome excommunicated him. He published his own canon: ten Pauline letters (including one to the Laodiceans, skipping the Pastorals) and a gospel historically understood as an edited Luke, though some scholars like Matthias Klinghardt argue his version came first. Early writers—Justin Martyr, Irena…
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O wonder beyond wonders, rapture, power, and amazement is it, that one can say nothing at all about the gospel, nor even conceive of it, nor compare it with anything.
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