RE: Existence of Marcion questioned?
March 2, 2022 at 3:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2022 at 3:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
He's named in relatively few places though the whole of justins work "against marcion" is against marcionite theology.
He never met the man, we can safely say, even if we assume there was one. End of the day, whether or not there was a real boy boils down to a ridiculous russian doll situation, where we're taking the word of a certainly fictional person that a legendary man exists and all of this happens before anyone writes a screed against his supposed theology. Tellingly, the timelines don't match up. We're hearing the story of a cultural grievance.
He never met the man, we can safely say, even if we assume there was one. End of the day, whether or not there was a real boy boils down to a ridiculous russian doll situation, where we're taking the word of a certainly fictional person that a legendary man exists and all of this happens before anyone writes a screed against his supposed theology. Tellingly, the timelines don't match up. We're hearing the story of a cultural grievance.
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