docetic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /dəʊˈsɛtɪk/ (UK)
Etymology
From Docetae + -ic, from Late Latin Docetae, from Koine Greek Δοκηταί (Dokētaí), from Ancient Greek δοκεῖν (dokeîn, “to seem, to appear”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or related to docetism or docetists, believing that Jesus was fully divine and only appeared to be human and to suffer.
In these letters Ignatius spoke much of his concern at what are recognizable as forms of gnostic belief, including docetic views of Christ's Passion.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 133:It is a docetic view of this miracle, which conceives of the body of Christ as permanently exempt from the law of gravity.
1846, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord, page 284: