[p. 1] Searching criticisms of my monograph on Marcion,1 together with the addenda and corrections that I am able to supply myself, make it necessary to return to the subject. Through [p. 2] the criticisms the following principal questions have again become controversial:
I. What is the point of departure, and therefore also the fundamental idea, in Marcion’s Christianity? Is it really the antithesis of good and righteous, Gospel and law? Is he not in truth far more remote from the apostle Paul than at first appears? Is his teaching not, after all, merely a variety — if a particularly remarkable one — of Gnostic dualism, given a Pauline colouring after the fact? Is he not cruder, more naive, less evangelical and less distinctive than he appears in my presentation? Is he not very strongly dependent on extra-Christian influences?
II. Have I not overestimated his significance for the development of Christianity into the Catholic Church? May one, for example, really call him the creator of the New Testament?
III. Has he anything still to say to the present, or is his significance wholly absorbed in his own age?
IV. Did his biblical text exercise an influence on the Catholic texts, or are those texts not rather entirely free of any such influence?
Notes
- [p. 1] Lietzmann in the Ztschr. f. d. N.-Tliche Wissensch. 1921, p. 94 f. — Jülicher, Marcion, in the Christl. Welt 1921 no. 18. — Eißfeldt, Christent. u. A. T., in the Kartell-Zeitung des Eisenacher Kartells Akad. Theol. Vereine, 1921 no. 7. — K. L. Schmidt, Marcion und wir, in the same place. — v. Soden, in the Deutsche Lit.-Ztg. 1921 no. 49; the same author in the Ztschr. f. K.-Gesch. vol. LX (N. F. III) 1922 p. 193 ff. — Krüger in the Lit. Zentr.-Blatt 1921 no. 19. — Koch in the Theol. Lit.-Ztg. 1921 col. 313 ff. — R. Harris, Marcions Book of Contradict., in the Bull. of the John Rylands Libr., Manchester, vol. VI no. 3, 1921 p. 289 ff. — Windisch, in the Museum (Leiden) August 1921; van den Bergh van Eysinga, in the Nieuw Theol. Tijdschr. 1921 III p. 218 ff. (the hesitant and ill-willed rearguard action of a radical critic who has seen his hopes float away). — de Bruyne, in the Rev. Bénéd. 1921 Oct. (p. 13 ff.). — Lagrange, in the Rev. Biblique 1921 Oct. — Weinel in the Deutsch. Allg. Ztg. 1921, 24 Dec. — Lowther Clarke in the periodical Theology, a monthly Journ. of Historic Christianity 1921 no. 17 p. 297 ff. — Wikenhauser, in the Oberrheinisch. Pastoralblatt 1921, 15 August. — Grützmacher in the Theologie der Gegenwart, vol. XV, 1921, no. 4 p. 124 ff. — A. Th. J., in the Theol. Tidsschr., Copenhagen 1921, 27 Nov., p. 18. — Walter Köhler in the Neue Züricher Ztg. 1921 no. 668 (7 May). — Moffat, in the Hibbert Journ. 1921, July, p. 772 ff. — Behm, in the Theol. Lit.-Bl. 1922 no. 12, p. 183 f. — Stalker, in the Expositor 1922 vol. XXIII April, p. 241 ff. — d’Alès, Marcion, la Réforme chrét. au IIe siècle, in the Recherch. de Science Relig. 1922 vol. XIII, May to Aug., p. 137 ff. — Hein, Moderner Marcionitismus, in the Theol. Blätter 1922 nos. 6 and 7. — Vogels, in the Theol. Revue 1922 no. 3/4. — Jordan, in the Theol. Lit.-Bericht 1922 no. 3. — E. Vischer, in the Kirchenbl. f. d. Reform. Schweiz 1922 no. 28. — Hoh, in the Lit. Beilage z. Augsb. Postztg. 1922 no. 11. — Grejdanus, Marcion Paulinist in zijne Gnaden- [note continues on p. 2] leer? in the Gereform. Theol. Tijdschr. 1923 January, Aflevering 9, p. 337 ff. — Amann, M. et Marcionisme, in the Rev. des Sciences Relig. (Univ. de Strasbourg) 1923 no. 1, p. 111 ff. — Walter Bauer, in the Gött. Gel.-Anz. 1923 pp. 1–14. ↩