(March 2, 2022 at 2:53 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Wouldn't it be closer to anachronism? The later christian authors applying their definition of christianity to a preexisting body of source works (in order to lump in and declare as marcionism, as heresy, historically opposed views)?
That would depend on what your hypothesized date for the proto-Catholic movement would be. From what I read on his blog Rene Salm hypothesizes around a 140 CE date for what he theorizes is a proto-Catholic takeover of what was once a largely gnostic movement. By that type of dating, First Apology’s Marcion name-drop isn’t necessarily an anachronism.
