docetism
Meanings
Plural: docetisms
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
- The doctrine of the Docetes, that Jesus only appeared to have a physical body and was ultimately of celestial substance.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin Docetae + -ism, from Ancient Greek δοκηταί (dokētaí, “phantasmists”), coined 197–203 CE by Serapion of Antioch, from δοκέω (dokéō, “I seem”), δόκησις (dókēsis, “apparition, phantom”). Related to latter component of synecdoche.
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