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Marcionite
or Mar·cion·ist
[ mahr-shuh-nahyt ]
noun
- a member of a Gnostic ascetic sect that flourished from the 2nd to 7th century a.d. and that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Christ.
adjective
- of or relating to the Marcionites or their doctrines.
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Origin of Marcionite1
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Example Sentences
The golden age of the Marcionite churches falls between the years 150 and 250.
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The Marcionite Antitheses were probably spread among other Gnostic sects.
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Still more logical indeed was the dilemma: either Jewish, or Marcionite Christian.
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Tertullian has frequently pointed to the contradictions in the Marcionite conception of the god of creation.
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The Antitheses of Marcion had a place in the Marcionite canon (see above, p. 270).
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