Sunday, August 17, 2008

Marcion wasn't a 'shipowner'

A sample of what appears in the Real Messiah order it here

Marcion wasn't a 'shipowner.' The Church Fathers only misunderstood (or more likely 'misrepresented') the meaning of this term. Naukleros was a well known Platonic term related to the ideal republic which undoubtedly originally shed light on Marcion's role in his realization of this community in term of the nascent Christian Church.

http://books.google.com/books?id=OSzb2ehhOvYC&pg=PA190&dq=ship+plato&lr=&sig=ACfU3U2hfdnNLY9h02cqAg91rb75kbmSxQ


Almost all of Clement of Alexandria''s references to Marcion connected him to Plato (especially in book three of the Stromata) The idea is present in other writers too. The term 'heresy' is obviously connected to philosophy. If only more theologians studied philosophy no one would have ever literally believed that Marcion was 'of Pontos' or an actual 'naukleros.'


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