English

Noun

docetism ‎(countable and uncountable, plural docetisms)

1. (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’).

Derived terms

• docetic

Related terms

• Docete
• Docetae
• synecdoche

See also

• gnosticism
• monophysitism

Anagrams

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