MARCIONISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marcionism mean? 

• MARCIONISM (noun)
  The noun MARCIONISM has 1 sense:

1. the Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human

  Familiarity information: MARCIONISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARCIONISM (noun)

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Meaning:

The Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Marcionism" is a kind of...):

heresy; unorthodoxy (a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion)

theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)