Marcionismn.
/ˈmɑːʃ(ɪ)ənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɑːsɪənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmɑrʃ(i)əˌnɪzəm/, /ˈmɑrsiəˌnɪzəm/ Church History.
The doctrines of the Marcionites.
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Marcionitism1883
1868 P. Holmes tr. Tertullian Five Bks. against Marcion Pref. If Marcionism is in the letter obsolete, there is its spirit still left in the church, which in more ways than one develops its ancient characteristics.
1882 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. III. 821/2 If we accept this as the original form of Marcionism, Marcion owed more to the older Gnostics than we should otherwise have supposed.
1973 Amer. Hist. Rev. 78 121/1 Mr. Johnston..revives Marcionism—an early heresy stressing the diabolic component in the creation—as a concept to comprehend the pessimistic outlook of Prag Germans.
1996 Church Times 16 Feb. 11/4 Setting Numbers against John..invites us to commit the second-century heresy of Marcionism, imagining that the God of the Old Testament is different from the God of the New.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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