docetists

I believe, that in addition to docetists christians (who believed that Jesus only seemed to suffer), separationist as the followers of Cerinthus (c 100 CE), were the opponents of Ignatius in his letter to Trallians.

Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010

So then when we come down to 11, he seems to have two targets in mind - those who denied the death of Jesus (docetists) and those who denied the resurrection (Jews).

Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010

You write that Surely the docetists believed that someone was born, had a passion and died under Pontius Pilate.

Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010

Surely the docetists believed that someone was born, had a passion and died under Pontius Pilate.

Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010

The footnote again in my Penguin edition indicates that the above comment alluded to "the docetists, who denied the reality of the passion".

Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010

We can start with Nero Caesar, Domitian Caesar, Arius, gnostics, docetists, and move on toward the Middle Ages with feudal lords from king to knight who fought the Church on the Continent.

Coffee Bowl Browsing... 2009

His thesis is that proto-orthodox scribes of the second and third centuries occasionally altered their sacred texts for polemical reasons-for example, to oppose adoptionists like the Ebionites, who claimed that Christ was a man but not God, or docetists like Marcion, who claimed that he was God but not a man, or Gnostics like the

World religions, List of religions, Christian religion, history religion, mayan religion 2010

And those who deny that, docetists, were considered heretics (although nowadays some of the most obnoxious self-proclaimed traditional Christians seem to be docetists, but that’s another topic …).

Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism 2007