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A 4 page essay that summarizes and reflects on chapter 8 of Justo Gonzalez's The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. No additional sources are cited.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Gonzalez, The Early Church, Chapter 8
Research Compiled By - February, 2012 properly! The focus of this chapter
is on describing the variety of backgrounds and experience that informed early interpretations of the gospel message. Author, Justin Gonzalez explains that these interpretations all laid claim to the name
of Christ, but they also frequently interpreted the story of Christ in such a way that the message was obscured and distorted.i Gnosticism This sect of Christianity is identified as
the both "dangerous," and the one that came closest to "victory."ii A large, amorphous movement, Gnosticism incorporated Christian belief with various other items from Judeo-Christian tradition as well as diverse
systems.iii A main tenet was that Gnostics possessed mystical knowledge that was reserved onto to a select few and that this knowledge was the "secret key to salvation."iv The beliefs
of Gnosticism that Gonzalez describes envision the world as a mistake, in which the spiritual essence of human beings is held captive within material bodies within a material world, all
of which is perceived as evil.v In order to liberate the spiritual beings within human beings through gnosis (knowledge), a spiritual messenger is necessary in order to awaken the spiritual
nature of humanity.vi Christian Gnosticism portrays Christ as this messenger. Marcion Since Marcion was the son of the bishop of Sinope, he grew up a Christian. He is noted
for having a profound prejudice against Judaism and the material world.vii The version of Christianity he developed was consequently anti-Jewish and anti-material. Like the Gnostics, Marcion saw the world as
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