{"product_id":"loa-marcion-antitheses","title":"Antitheses of Marcion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if the sharpest challenge to a sacred text survives only in the words of its opponents?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Antitheses of Marcion, a Christian teacher places passages from the Jewish scriptures beside the words and acts of Jesus. Marcion of Sinope argues that their contrasts point to two different gods: a just Creator and a loving Father revealed by Christ. His claim challenges the place of Jewish scripture in Christian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe complete work no longer survives. This account follows what scholars reconstruct from quotations preserved by Marcion’s opponents, especially Tertullian in Against Marcion. It traces the contrasts, the shorter collection of scriptures, and the communities shaped by his teaching. Throughout, the evidence asks for care: the voices preserving his words also seek to refute them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA lost book’s traces\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore how hostile witnesses preserve fragments of a work their churches reject.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo visions of divinity\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Marcion’s argument that the Creator’s justice differs from the Father’s goodness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eScripture set beside scripture\u003c\/strong\u003e – See how opposing passages become the building blocks of Marcion’s religious challenge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA shorter sacred collection\u003c\/strong\u003e – Examine the place of a shortened Gospel and Paul’s letters in Marcion’s teaching.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eChurches draw their boundaries\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover why this dispute presses other church leaders to clarify which writings they accept.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for students of church history and readers curious about how the Christian Bible takes shape, rather than those seeking a complete surviving text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and explore a lost argument through the traces its opponents preserve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":58111229002076,"sku":"LOA-139-EB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":58111229034844,"sku":"LOA-139-AU","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58113783005532,"sku":"LOA-139-PB","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/139.jpg?v=1781945038","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/it\/products\/loa-marcion-antitheses","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}