docetic

• “We all hold, in full doctrinal orthodoxy, that the Lord's sufferings, both of soul and body, were no "docetic" semblance but a deep and infinitely pathetic reality.”

  Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews

• “One of the parallels that strikes me is the lack of humility or at least self-awareness in the attempts to disassemble a large body of academic literature, rather than publishing - say - an article on Paul's conception of the archons as sublunar demons or docetic christology in GThom.”

  More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels

• “Contrary to this docetic position, I would suggest that our physical knowledge limitations as human beings are part and parcel of who we are.”

  Sinful Certainty

• “I think most commentators agree that the opponents were teaching a docetic Jesus, i.e. one who really only appeared to be human.”

  Johannine Literature: Essential for Salvation?

• “But, again, when you have a neo-docetic view of Jesus that basically divorces him from the political realities of his day, again, you have taken Jesus out of context.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2007

• “The implication is that church teaching is functionally docetic.”

  Da Vinci Code: the real challenge to the church

• “These include a Pelagian doctrine of salvation, a unitarian doctrine of God, a docetic christology and Bible, a gnostic doctrine of eschatology, and a Constantinian doctrine of church-state relations—which, by the way, was what led the German church to support Hitler.”

  Evangelical heresies

• “No, not here at the conference, where nobody is yet conflating me with the docetic Christ.”

  Blogging from Singapore's SBL Conference: Thursday

• “Gospel of St. John contained, they said, what was untrue; according to them it was not in accord with the other Gospels, mixed up the synoptic order of events, and was, moreover, docetic in doctrine.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

• “When the former is so exclusively emphasized that the latter seems a mere appearance, the heresy is of the docetic type; when the case is the reverse, the heresy is of the ebionitic type.”

  The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"

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