Marcionism (Adam, Simron, Andrew, Sequioa)
Marcion, the founder of Marcionism, grew up wealthy and his father was a bishop, which makes since why he knows so much …
Marcionism (Ivana, Maggie, Ryan, and Emily)
We discussed how Marcion had a dithesitic theology and Docestic christiology. He used edited versions of Paul’s letters and Luke’s Gospels to …
Marcionites (Selmira, Tee, Emily)
Marcion believes in Jesus as a phantasm. The justification for this is that Marcion believes that the God of the Jews created …
Docetism (Emily, Maggie, Tim, Andrew)
Docetist Christology takes two forms: 1) Jesus Christ was fully divine and only appeared to have a flesh-and-blood body and 2) Jesus …
Docetists (Ryan, Emily, Simron, Sequioa
The two major threads of Docetism are the a) Jesus was a phantom and that b) Jesus was only human and that Christ …
Docetism (Selmira, Adam, Ivana)
According to Docetism Christology there are two different views: a) Jesus only seemed to be human–he was a phantom, and b) Jesus …
Jewish-Christian Adoptionists (Andrew, Tim, Maggie, Emily)
Jewish-Christian adoptionists believed that Jesus was a mortal man, who was so righteous that God adopted him upon baptism. Jesus was believed …
Adoptionists (Ryan, Emily, Simron, Sequioa)
Both adoptionist and proto-orthodox modified text to bring them into accordance to their belief systems. The Ebionites were the Jewish-Christian adoptionist who …
Adoptionists (Adam, Ivana, Selmira)
The adoptionists obtained their beliefs by embracing Jesus’ lifestyle, especially as a Jewish practitioner. This is also geographically accurate since they were …
Classical “Highway” vs. Modern “Highway”
Emily Larrabee, Ryan McEvoy, Sequoia Roscoe, Simron Richard