NOUN
- the heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real
How To Use Docetism In A Sentence
- So, again, the Pauline Christology ends in Docetism, and his teaching that we are saved by the Spirit is a soteriology which is at once physical and magical, while the evolution of his eschatology consists in the denial of the resurrection of the body. The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.
- Personally I can see how people could have fallen into Docetism, but Arianism is simply absurd. Matthew Yglesias » The War on Christmas: The Early Years