Prof Lieu’s Soon-Coming Book on Marcion (Gupta)

Prof Lieu’s Soon-Coming Book on Marcion (Gupta) March 14, 2015

MarcionMarcion is one of the figures oft-mentioned in scholarship, but few of us know more than superficial information. Leave it to the excellent Prof. Judith Lieu to offer a thorough examination of Marcion and his disputants in the second century. The book is entitled, Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century (Cambridge Press, April 30, 2015).

Here is the description:

A comprehensive and authoritative account of the ‘heretic’ Marcion, this volume traces the development of the concept and language of heresy in the setting of an exploration of second-century Christian intellectual debate. Judith M. Lieu analyses accounts of Marcion by the major early Christian polemicists who shaped the idea of heresy, including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius of Salamis, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Ephraem Syrus. She examines Marcion’s ‘Gospel’, ‘Apostolikon’, and ‘Antitheses’ in detail and compares his principles with those of contemporary Christian and non-Christian thinkers, covering a wide range of controversial issues: the nature of God, the relation of the divine to creation, the person of Jesus, the interpretation of Scripture, the nature of salvation, and the appropriate lifestyle of adherents. In this innovative study, Marcion emerges as a distinctive, creative figure who addressed widespread concerns within second-century Christian diversity.


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