3.21 The Imperial Church Incorporate I: The Heretic

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The rest of the show covers the second half of the second century. In this period, the little Jesus clubs evolved into the imperial church incorporate. This and the next few episodes cover the three dominant personalities of that period. In this episode I investigate the ‘heretic’ Marcion of Sinope. Marcion shook the church to its foundations when he moved to Rome. He rejected the idea that Christianity was based on Judaism and the Old testament. He constructed the first Christian canon: ten letters of Paul, and a reduced version of the gospel of Luke. Decisively expelled by the imperial church incorporate, Marcion returned to Asia Minor and founded a successful rival to the church, one that persisted for centuries. Marcion forced the church to build its own canon, and to raise Paul from obscure letter-writer and martyr, to pre-eminent apostle.

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0:00.0	Giday, I'm Gary Stevens.
0:09.9	And welcome to the third season of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:15.3	In this final season, I explore how the Jews and the Christians constructed new religions when they were sent
0:23.9	spinning into the void after the destruction of the temple. All of the history, about all of the
0:31.4	books beyond the Bible.
0:44.8	Episode 3.21, The Imperial Church Incorporate, Part 1, The Heretic.
0:51.2	In the past few episodes, I have explored the first half of the second century.
0:57.6	These decades saw two ill-fated Judean uprisings, the Kittos War and the Bar Kosovo Revolt, which led to nothing but calamity for the Jews. The rabbinic
1:04.8	movement emerged from the bitter ashes of these conflicts to reconstruct its people's religion.
1:11.9	It would succeed magnificently with the creation of the Mishnah.
1:16.8	For more on that, check out episode 3.17, quest for the rabbis part two, Mishnah.
1:25.3	The time also saw the rise of the Gnostic movements. Rewind to my show 3.19,
1:32.9	Knowing Me, Knowing You Part 1, the children of Sith. For more on those weckos.
1:40.4	Scholars think that the Gospels after Mark were written in the first half of the second century,
1:46.9	as well as the letters of John and James and Jude and Peter,
1:51.7	and such works as the Didigy and the Shepherd of Hermes.
1:56.6	But as for people rather than books,
2:00.2	the important Christian figures of this period
2:02.8	appeared dimly behind a veil of legend, Clement of Rome, Polycarp, Ignatius and Papius.
2:12.3	You can catch up with them from my episode 3.13 after the Apostles Part 1, Out of the Mist.
2:21.8	Let's move on to the second half of the second century.
2:25.6	I have a chart on my website, www.Histryinthebibble.com.
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