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    Meet Marcion
    Meet Marcion
    Meet Marcion
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    Meet Marcion

    By Sebastian Moll

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    “Ha, the Creator didn’t even know where Adam was. Like in a game of hide-and-seek he, the ‘Omniscient’, ran around in his own garden, calling: Adam, where art thou?”
    In this hilarious and thought-provoking play, we meet Marcion of Sinope, the first man to ever officially break with the Church for doctrinal reasons, the arch-heretic. He is visited by his nemesis, the hot-blooded Tertullian, who comes to Rome in a frantic attempt to bring Marcion back to the true faith. But he will not be easily swayed and instead lures Tertullian into a deep debate about God, faith, alcohol, women and other vices. Featuring the Gnostic Ptolemy, the Bishop of Rome and many other prominent Christian figures, this play invites the viewer to plunge into the religious atmosphere of the second century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateJan 7, 2015
    ISBN9783738688245
    Meet Marcion
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    Sebastian Moll

    Sebastian Moll ist Studienleiter der THS-Akademie für pastorale Führungskräfte in Bingen am Rhein. Zuvor war der promovierte Theologe (University of Edinburgh) viele Jahre als Dozent an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz tätig. Von ihm erschienen bisher u. a.: Jesus war kein Vegetarier (2011), Albert Schweitzer - Meister der Selbstinszenierung (2014), Das Evangelium nach Homer - Die Simpsons und die Theologie (2015).

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      Meet Marcion - Sebastian Moll

      To John Armes, Michael Fuller, Marty Lunde,

      Steve Martz, Paul Parvis, Sara Parvis

      – The Original Ensemble

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      Prologue

      Scene I

      Scene II

      Scene III

      Scene IV

      Scene V

      Scene VI

      Scene VII

      Abbreviations

      Bibliography

      Secondary Sources

      Preface

      It gives me great pleasure finally to publish this play, almost ten years after its premiere in Edinburgh on November 30, 2005. Ever since, the play has been performed several times, including the unforgettable performance at Christ Church, Oxford, during the XV International Conference on Patristics Studies 2007.

      Many passages in the play, particularly in the footnotes, are outdated from an academic point of view. In fact, several statements provided here are refuted by my own work The Arch-Heretic Marcion, published in 2010. However, I have decided to present the play unchanged, considering it rather a piece of art than a research study in constant need of revision.

      Bingen am Rhein, October 2014

      Sebastian Moll

      Es ist eine Freude, sich mit einem tief religiösen Mann von intellektueller Reinlichkeit zu beschäftigen.

      Adolf von Harnack about Marcion

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      MARCION, theologian and church leader in Rome, considered a heretic

      APELLES, one of his followers

      TERTULLIAN, Marcion’s most ardent adversary

      PTOLEMAEUS, Gnostic leader in Rome

      ANICETUS, Bishop of Rome

      POLYCARP, Bishop of Smyrna

      Scene: Rome, middle of the second century

      Prologue

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