Marcion
historical figure · 9 works · 37 mentions · 102 anchored passages
the heretic · the Pontic · the man of Pontus · Marcion of Pontus · Marcionites · Pontus · barbarous heretic · most inconsiderate Marcion · shipmaster · shipmaster of Pontus
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Heretical teacher from Pontus who taught two gods, rejected the Creator, and is the primary target of this treatise.
whether two gods may be introduced;
Do not, barbarous heretic, set Abraham before the world.
You are stuck, Marcion, in the midst of your own Pontic surge.
Stromata
Founder of the Marcionite sect, taught matter/generation as evil and opposed the Demiurge.
Of those who are led by heresy, we have mentioned Marcion of Pontus, who, because of his opposition to the Demiurge, refuses the use of worldly things.
Only, I think it has been shown by us not obscurely that Marcion took the starting-points of his strange doctrines from Plato, both ungratefully and ignorantly.
Now if Plato himself and the Pythagoreans, like the followers of Marcion later, had supposed generation to be evil (though Plato was far from holding women to be common), still the Marcionites suppose nature to be evil, made of evil matter and by a just Demiurge.
De Carne Christi
The heretical teacher who denied that Christ had a true human birth or flesh, treated as the primary opponent throughout the text.
Marcion, in order to deny Christ's flesh, denied his birth as well;
" By such counsels, I suppose, you dared, Marcion, to blot out so many original records of Christ, that his flesh might not be proved.
It is necessary, in that you suppose this lay within your own discretion, that you have judged the birth either impossible or unbecoming to God.
De Carnis Resurrectione
Heretical teacher who denied that Christ possessed true flesh and posited another God than the Creator.
But with Marcion you will learn more fully whether this be the whole of God.
And therefore, compelled to dispose of Christ in another way lest He be reckoned the Creator's, they first went astray about His very flesh, contending either that it is no true flesh at all (as Marcion and Basilides hold) or that it is of a peculiar quality (as the heresies of Valentinus and Apelles hold).
Marcion to be raised up for Valentinus?
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Marcion, heresiarch who taught a 'better god' derived from Stoic philosophy.
With Marcion?
Thence Marcion's better god, out of his tranquillity:
By what right, in short, Marcion, do you cut down my wood?
Letters
Heresiarch whose teaching that creation is defiled underlies the Encratite heresy.
For since their heresy is, as it were, an offshoot of the Marcionists, who abhor marriage and turn away from wine, and say that the creation of God is defiled, we do not receive them into the Church unless they are baptized into our baptism.
Adversus Praxean
Heretic cited as an example of setting up a rival god against the Creator.
when another god is set up against the Creator, as with Marcion, and the many gods of the followers of Valentinus and Prodicus — then there is an overthrow of the monarchy, when there is a destruction of the Creator.
De Anima
Heresiarch who denied the reality of Christ's flesh (docetism) and is elsewhere answered on free will.
For so Marcion too chose to believe Him a phantom, scorning the truth of His whole body in Him.
This will be the power of divine grace, more powerful assuredly than nature, having in us the free power of the will subject to itself, which is called ‘autexousion’;
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
A heretical teacher named as an example of one who enjoins perpetual abstinence against the Creator's works.
He reprobates also those who command to abstain from foods—but out of the providence of the Holy Spirit, condemning beforehand the heretics who would enjoin a perpetual abstinence to destroy and despise the works of the Creator: