Docetism Definition

dō-sētĭzəm, dōsə-tĭzəm
noun
A belief among some early Christians that Christ merely seemed to have a human body: it came to be considered heretical.
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Noun

Singular:
Docetism
Plural:
docetisms

Origin of Docetism

  • From Latin Docetae, Docetæ +‎ -ism, from Ancient Greek doketai "phantasmists", coined 197–203 CE by Serapion of Antioch, from δοκέω (dokeō, “I seem”), δόκησις (dókēsis, “apparition, phantom”). Related to latter component of synecdoche.

    From Wiktionary

  • Probably from Late Greek Dokētai espousers of Docetism from Greek dokein to seem dek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Docetism Sentence Examples

  • Lightfoot, however, has proved that Polycarp's statements may equally well be directed against Corinthianism or any other form of Docetism, while some of his arguments are absolutely inapplicable to Marcionism.

  • Docetism, however, undoubtedly existed before the time of Cassianus.

  • Traces of a Jewish Docetism are to be found in Philo; and in the Christian form it is generally supposed to be combated in the writings of John, 2 and more formally in the epistles of Ignatius.

  • Clement and Origen, at the head of the Alexandrian school, took a somewhat subtle view of the Incarnation, and Docetism pervades their controversies with the Monarchians.

  • This is not docetism, as is so often alleged, but the very opposite.

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