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Docetism
A Christ who only seemed to bleed, and a cross that only appeared to hurt
Docetism, from a Greek word for 'seeming,' is the teaching that Christ only appeared to have a body and to suffer, denying that he was truly human. It was opposed early by Ignatius of Antioch, who insisted Christ really was born, really ate, and really died, and by the First Letter of John. Among the earliest errors the Church condemned, it threatened the reality of the incarnation and the saving death.
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- 1 JohnEphesus · 100challenges
- Epistle to the Smyrnæans: Shorter and Longer VersionsAntioch · 108challenges
- Against Heresies: Book ILyons · 202explains
- Against Heresies: Book VLyons · 202challenges
- Against Heresies: Book IIILyons · 202challenges
- On the Flesh of Christ.— · 220challenges
- Appendix: Against All Heresies.— · 220explains
- The Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes.— · 220applies
- Against the Valentinians.— · 220challenges
- A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.Rome · 258challenges
- The Church History of EusebiusCaesarea · 339explains
- The Catechetical Lectures of S. CyrilJerusalem · 386explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. JohnConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407challenges
- Reply to Faustus the ManichæanHippo Regius · 430challenges
- Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of JohnHippo Regius · 430challenges
- The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of TheodoretCyrrhus · 458challenges
- The Letters and Sermons of Leo the GreatRome · 461challenges
- Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)Paris · 1274challenges
- Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the GospelGeneva · 1564challenges
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