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/doʊˈsiːtɪz(ə)m/ · noun
(Christianity) The belief that Jesus was fully divine and only appeared or pretended to be human and to suffer..
His Passion and Resurrection in history were therefore not fleshly events, even if they seemed so; they were heavenly play-acting (the doctrine known as Docetism, from the Greek verb dokein, ‘to seem’).
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Docetism means (Christianity) The belief that Jesus was fully divine and only appeared or pretended to be human and to suffer..
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His Passion and Resurrection in history were therefore not fleshly events, even if they seemed so; they were heavenly play-acting (the doctrine known as Docetism, from the Greek verb dokein, ‘to seem’).
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