Definitions
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- adj. Pertaining to docetism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of, pertaining to, or held by the Docetæ: as, “Docetic gnosticism,”
Etymologies
Examples
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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.
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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.
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Contrary to this docetic position, I would suggest that our physical knowledge limitations as human beings are part and parcel of who we are.
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I think most commentators agree that the opponents were teaching a docetic Jesus, i.e. one who really only appeared to be human.
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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.
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The implication is that church teaching is functionally docetic.
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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.
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No, not here at the conference, where nobody is yet conflating me with the docetic Christ.
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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.
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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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