Events Tagged: "Marcion"

Marcion arrives in Rome - wealthy shipowner brings large donation, begins teaching rejection of Old Testament

Marcion teaches demiurge doctrine - Old Testament God is different inferior deity from Father of Jesus, creates theological crisis

Marcion excommunicated in Rome - wealthy shipowner creates first biblical canon (Luke + 10 Pauline letters), rejects Old Testament

Marcion excommunicated - Church returns his donation, he creates first biblical canon: edited Luke + 10 Pauline letters

St. Pius I dies - tenth pope, brother of Hermas who wrote The Shepherd, opposed Marcion's heresy

Irenaeus writes Against Heresies - Student of Polycarp combats Marcionites and Gnostics, establishes OT-NT unity