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Marcionism Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ism

Marcionism has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

the Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human

2

An early Christian following akin to but distinct from gnosticism which rejected the validity of the Old Testament and essentially denied the Trinity, regarding God the Father as an inferior demiurge, and that Jesus had nothing to do with the First Person of the Trinity.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
theological doctrine heresy
Rhyming Words
ism oism jism wuism agism meism prism yoism quism reism weism tuism ovism idism grism deism seism icism zoism owlism
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