The writer is controverting the Docetic heresy, and at the same time keeping up the line of communications with the apostolic base.
The polemic is directed against a dualism which developed theoretically into doceticviews of Christ's person (ii.
A docetic interpretation of the human nature entails a docetic view of redemption.
His teaching could not with justice be styled docetic or Apollinarian, but its mystic tone was so pronounced that it proved a propaedeutic for monophysitism.
This docetic theory commended itself to many of the Greek Christians.
In the New Testament too there is a large Docetic element.
Rhossus in Cilicia, and condemned it asDocetic (Eusebius, H.
They are attributed to Leucius, a Docetic writer, by Augustine (c.
This gospel was originally still more Docetic than it now is, according to Lipsius.
Semler represents the Pelagian or Ebionitic view, as Quenstedt represents this Docetic view.
Upon the oppositeDocetic view, the most perfect inspiration should have been that of Balaam's ass.
Hilary especially illustrates the prevalence of naive Docetic views as regards the details of the Incarnation.
Of an incarnation of God, even of a docetic kind, they know nothing.
Correspondingly, the anthropology exhibits man as bipartite, or even tripartite, and the Christology is strictly docetic and anti-Jewish.
Yet afterwards, the Christological dogmas of the third and following centuries demanded a docetic explanation of many points in that history.
A docetic thought, however, lies in the assertion that the spiritual being Christ only assumed human flesh, however much the reality of the flesh may be emphasised.
The real docetic Christology as represented by Saturninus (and Marcion) was radically opposed to the tradition, and struck out the birth of Jesus, as well as the first 30 years of his life.
Docetic elements are apparent even in the fragment of the Gospel of Peter recently discovered.
That room was made for docetic views, and value put upon a strict asceticism.
The next passage to which we must refer is one of the most important in connection with Marcion's Docetic doctrine of the person of Jesus.
This is particularly the case with Tertullian, who, moreover, in his earlier time had probably quite naive Docetic ideas and really looked upon the humanity of Christ as only flesh.
Versions which contained docetic elements and exhortations to the most pronounced asceticism had even made their way into the public worship of the Church.
The writer is fully aware of the danger, and protests against Docetism, but his own writings with very small changes would have been admirably adapted for Docetic purposes.
The Leucian Acts of John and Andrew, which seem to have a real connection with the Johannine tradition, represent this Docetic tendency.
It is also claimed as, perhaps, the most Docetic representation of the fragment, for the idea was that one Christ suffered and rose, and another flew up and was free from suffering.
If weakness were indicated, it might be taken as a Docetic representation of the condition of the human body, deprived of the divine Christ, who had ascended from the cross.
One of the passages which are supposed most clearly to betray Docetic tendencies is the expression, v.
We have already discussed the Docetic nature of this cry, and are now only considering it in relation to our Gospels.
We have already referred to this as one of the recognised Docetic passages of the fragment, although there is no necessity to read it in this sense.
This was removed to cut off occasion to Docetic error, and the gap was clumsily filled with an useless genealogy.
And it does not appear that Marcion denied the incarnation in toto, and went to the full extreme of Docetic doctrine.
But it had not been suffered to remain without interpolations which gave it a Docetic character.
This the Docetic exegete does in his own fashion, using the reading of the Greek Targum or Translation of the Seventy, in this wise: "Batos?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "docetic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
