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Docetic

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Do`cet´ic
a.1.Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ.


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In chapter two, he disputes the judgment of Kasemann and others that historical criticism is the only way to prevent a docetic Christology.
To say simply "Jesus is God" (and so God is Jesus) is a form of docetic heresy which argues Jesus was not human, and is identified with Apollinaris who denied Christ's humanity.
In the early centuries of the church this Incarnational ambivalence--discomfort in imagining a fully human Jesus--was observed in the Gnostic and Docetic heresies.
 
 
 
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