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DOCETAE , a name applied to those thinkers in the See also:early
See also:Christian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church who held that See also:Christ, during his See also:life, had not a real or natural, but only an apparent (SoKeiv, to appear) or phantom See also:body. Other explanations of the b6,c ris or See also:appearance have, however, been suggested, and, in the See also:absence of any statement by those who first used the word of the grounds on which they did so, it is impossible to determine between them with certainty. The name Docetae is first used by See also:Theodoret (Ep. 82) as a See also:general description, and by See also:Clement of See also:Alexandria as the designation of a distinct See also:sect,' of which he says that See also:Julius See also:Cassianus was the founder. Docetism, however, undoubtedly existed before the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of Cassianus. The origin of the See also:heresy is to be sought in the See also:Greek, Alexandrine and See also:Oriental philosophizing about the imperfection or rather the essential impurity of See also:matter. Traces of a Jewish Docetism are to be found in See also:Philo; and in the Christian See also:form it is generally supposed to be combated in the writings of See also:John,' and more formally in the epistles of See also:Ignatius.' It differed much in its complexion according to the points of view adopted by the different authors. Among the Gnostics and Manichaeans it existed in its most See also:developed type, and in a milder form it is to be found even in the writings of the orthodox teachers. The more thoroughgoing Docetae assumed the position that Christ was See also:born without any participation of matter; and that all the acts and sufferings of his human life, including the crucifixion, were only apparent. They denied accordingly, the resurrection and the ascent into See also:heaven. To this class belonged Dositheus, See also:Saturninus, Cerdo, See also:Marcion and their followers, the See also:Ophites, Manichaeans and others. Marcion, for example, regarded the body of Christ merely as an " See also:umbra," a " phantasma." His denial (due to his abhorrence of the See also:world) that Jesus was born or subjected to human development, is in striking contrast to the value which he sets on Christ's See also:death on the See also:cross. The other, or milder school of Docetae, attributed to Christ an ethereal and heavenly instead of a truly human body. Amongst these were See also:Valentinus, Bardesanes, See also:Basilides, See also:Tatian and their followers. They varied considerably in their estimation of the See also:share which this body had in the real actions and sufferings of Christ. Clement and See also:Origen, at the See also:head of the Alexandrian school, took a somewhat subtle view of the Incarnation, and Docetism pervades their controversies with the Monarchians. Hilary especially illustrates the prevalence of naive Docetic views as regards the details of the Incarnation. Docetic tendencies
' Not a distinct sect, but a continuous type of Christology. See also:Hippolytus, however (Philosophumena, viii. 8-I I), speaks of a definite party who called themselves Docetae.
Z I Ep. iv. 2, ii. 22, v. 6, 20; 2 Ep. 7, cf. See also:Jerome (See also:Dial. adv. See also:Lucifer. § 23 " Apostolis adhuc in saeculo superstitibus, adhuc apud Judaeam Christi sanguine recenti, phantasma Domini corpus asserebatur ").
' Ad Trail. 9 f., Ad Smyrn. 2, 4, Ad Ephes. 7. a See also:Polycarp, Ad Phil. 7.
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