Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or held by the Docetæ: as, “Docetic gnosticism,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ.
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- adjective Pertaining to
docetism .
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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.
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels James F. McGrath 2010
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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.
Johannine Literature: Essential for Salvation? James F. McGrath 2009
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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.
Sinful Certainty James F. McGrath 2009
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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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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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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.
Da Vinci Code: the real challenge to the church Sam Norton 2006
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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.
Evangelical heresies Sam Norton 2006
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No, not here at the conference, where nobody is yet conflating me with the docetic Christ.
Blogging from Singapore's SBL Conference: Thursday Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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