Docetism
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In Christian terminology, docetism (from the Greek Template:Lang dokein (to seem) /dókēsis (apparition, phantom), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as "the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality."
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Texts believed to include docetism
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Non-canonical Christian texts
- Gospel of Phillip
- Second Treatise of the Great Seth
- Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter
- Gospel of Judas
- In the Contra epistulam fundamenti, Augustine of Hippo makes reference to the Manichaeans believing that Jesus was Docetic.
- Gospel of Peter
- Acts of John
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See also
- Christology
- Adoptionism
- Adoptivi
- Arianism
- Binitarianism
- Monophysitism
- Avatar
- Christian heresy
- Patripassianism
- Marcionism
- Eidolon (apparition)
- Islamic view of Jesus' death
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