Marcion: The Gospel of a Wholly Good God
Aug 2025 · Fortress Press
Ebook
275
Pages
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About this ebook
Marcion presents the life, thought, and work of Marcion of Pontus in its historical, theological, ethical, and liturgical contexts. It distinguishes itself from its competitors by employing a new method: rigorously critiquing heresy reports by means of the testimony of Marcion's scriptures. It devotes attention to the reliable reconstruction of those scriptures, arguing for the chronological priority of Marcion's Gospel over what is now known as canonical Luke. It seeks to overthrow the common heresiological (and sometimes scholarly) portraits of Marcion as a ditheist, a docetist, a world-denier, requiring divorce, and deleting scripture. In so doing, it creates a new portrait of Marcion that is substantially different from everything that has come before.
About the author
M. David Litwa is a prolific scholar of ancient Christianities, including Gnostic Christianities, in their ancient Mediterranean contexts. With over a dozen years of experience teaching in person and online, he's helping to change academic culture as a public intellectual with global reach.
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