Search results for "Docetism" - New World Encyclopedia

is to warn against the heresy known as Docetism, which denied that Jesus ... apparently concerned with heresy known as Docetism, which taught that because ...

certain persons who preached the heresy known as Docetism. The writer complains that his letter to the church has not been acknowledged, or possibly ...

The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based narratives and traditions, relating the travels and miraculous deeds of John ...

The Epistle to the Colossians is a book of the Bible's New Testament. Although its authorship is disputed, the book is traditionally believed ...

heresy which the writer denounces is Docetism, the notion that since the ... Both of these doctines—Aninomianism and Docetism—were taught by ...

may have appeared to encourage. The other was Docetism that taught that the Christ had existed since the beginning and the corporeal reality of Jesus ...

spite of Clement's rejection of the Gnostic Docetism, was somewhat Docetic in nature. He said that the body of Christ was not subject to human needs ...

for elements which could be used to support docetism. Two non-canonical gospels that are considered to be among the earliest in composition are ...

concerned with the doctrine known as docetism, which taught that because the flesh itself is evil, Jesus did not possess an actual physical body. ...

thinking Christians against heresies such as docetism. These hymns employ colorful metaphors to describe the Incarnation of Christ as both fully human ...

Valentinus (ca. 100–ca. 160) was the best known and, for a time, most successful theologian in early Christian Gnosticism. In his Alexandrian ...

doctrine is a theologically complex form of docetism, a schismatic movement who argued that Jesus was a human who was "possessed" by a spiritual ...

Athanasius of Alexandria (also spelled "Athanasios") (c. 296 C.E. Though some sources suggest that Athanasius may have been born as ...

whose life was later mythologized—and Docetism—the belief that Jesus ... believe that this passage refers to docetism, the belief that Jesus lacked ...

The Apostle Peter, also known as Saint Peter, and Cephas—original name Simeon son of Jonah—was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. His life ...

The Cathari (also known as Cathars, Albigensians, or Catharism) were followers of a controversial religious sect that flourished in the Languedoc ...

Many believed in a doctrine known as docetism, the teaching that Jesus only appeared to possess a physical body. It was against this doctrine ...