{"product_id":"the-complete-marcion-a-comprehensive-examination-of-marcion-of-sinope-and-his-role-in-shaping-early-christianity-9798258538680","title":"The Complete Marcion: A Comprehensive Examination of Marcion of Sinope and His Role in Shaping Early Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bryan Manning\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Education - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround 144 AD, Marcion of Sinope was expelled from the Roman church. His writings were destroyed, his communities condemned as heretical, and his name became a byword for everything the emerging Catholic Church opposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet Marcionite churches survived for centuries across the Roman Empire, from Syria to Persia. Today, scholars remain deeply divided: Did Marcion corrupt the gospel, or did he preserve an earlier, purer version than the one the church eventually canonized?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Complete Marcion brings together, for the first time in a single accessible volume, everything needed to understand this pivotal and misunderstood figure. Drawing on all seven major hostile ancient sources, Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Epiphanius, Adamantius, and Eusebius, plus the best modern scholarship (Lieu, Klinghardt, Vinzent, BeDuhn, Roth), it reconstructs his life, dualistic theology, ascetic communities, and most importantly his lost gospel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a detailed, verse-by-verse reconstruction of Marcion's Gospel and a balanced examination of the explosive priority debate, this book lets you engage the evidence directly and decide for yourself: Was Marcion a dangerous heretic... or the man who forced Christianity to invent its New Testament?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead the sources. Examine the reconstruction. Make up your own mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBryan Manning is an independent scholar who has spent more than twenty years exploring the intersection of religion, history, and power. A lifelong student of ideas, he focuses on the roads not taken in history: the suppressed voices, forgotten movements, and contested texts that institutional narratives often marginalize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work centers on periods of genuine diversity and open possibility before orthodoxy or dominant traditions closed off alternatives. He is particularly interested in how power, authority, and canon formation shape what survives as \"official\" history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Complete Marcion is part of a larger project examining pivotal but underappreciated figures and movements in the development of early Christianity and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUpdated May 2026: formatting, layout, and typographical corrections.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883494064279,"sku":"9798258538680","price":1537.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258538680.webp?v=1781102168","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-complete-marcion-a-comprehensive-examination-of-marcion-of-sinope-and-his-role-in-shaping-early-christianity-9798258538680","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}