docetism
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docetism (uncountable)
- (Christianity) The doctrine of the Docetes, that Jesus only appeared to have a physical body and was ultimately of celestial substance.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 124:
- His Passion and Resurrection in history were therefore not fleshly events, even if they seemed so; they were heavenly play-acting (the doctrine known as Docetism, from the Greek verb dokein, ‘to seem’).
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 124:
