Docetism
idea · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
a false flesh · apparent or heavenly body of Christ · likeness of sinful flesh · phantasm · the Docetic doctrine
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The doctrine, attributed to Marcion, that Christ's flesh was illusory rather than real.
Why then did he so greatly procure knowledge of himself, that he was exhibited in the dishonour of the flesh — and that the greater, if a false flesh?
If the Father sent him in the likeness of sinful flesh, not on that account shall the flesh which appeared in him be called a phantasm.
Letters
Heresy denying Christ's true, material human body.
For all these things are done away with by those who say that the Lord came having a heavenly body.
Since, then, men do not cease wrangling about the incarnation of the Lord — some defining that He took a body, others that His coming was bodiless;