Studia Patristica. Vol. XCIX - Marcion of Sinope as Religious Entrepreneur

Marcion of Sinope, as the vast output of books and papers about this

second-century teacher has proven since the times when he was alive and

still until today, is one of the most known and debated Christian

entrepreneurs of the new religious Jesus-movement, perhaps the one who

was responsible for the self-denomination “Christianity’. In this volume

papers have been collected that originated or were inspired by a

workshop in 2014 at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, directed

by Jan Bremmer, Joerg Rupke and Markus Vinzent. "Marcion of Sinope as

Religious Entrepreneur’ is not just a volume on Marcion’s texts, but

also on his role and his reception in the second century, particularly

in the making of Christianity.