Definition of Docetic

1. a. Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ.

Definition of Docetic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to docetism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Docetic

1. pertaining to a religious doctrine [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Docetic

dobro
dobros
dobs
dobson
dobson fly
dobsonflies
dobsonfly
dobsons
dobule
dobules
dobutamine
doby
docent
docents
docetaxel
docetic (current term)
docetism
docetist
docetists
dochmiac
dochmii
dochmius
docht
docible
docibleness
docile
docilely
docileness
dociler
docilest

Literary usage of Docetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"That it is Gnostic is clear, that it is docetic is vigorously denied by McGiffert, who is not, however, strongly supported by other scholars. ..."

2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1854)
"... the suffering of Christ, in accomplishing the work of redemption, this circumstance would, it is true, seem not quite consistent with his docetic views. ..."

3. Buddhist and Christian Gospels by Albert Joseph Edmunds (1908)
"ANTI-docetic: THE LORD WAS A REAL MAN. 1 John IV. 2, 3. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the ..."

4. Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His by Abraham Coles, Ezra Mundy Hunt (1892)
"... Marcionism (docetic Gnosticism), Sabellianism, Apollinarianism, Nestorianism, Eutychian- ism and Monothelitism or Monophysitism as well as the Lutheran ..."

5. A Popular Account of the Newly-recovered Gospel of St. Peter by James Rendel Harris (1893)
"THE docetic GOSPEL OF PETER. THE reader will see a word at the head of this chapter which will perhaps look strange to him; but as he reads what we have to ..."

6. The Newly-recovered Gospel of St. Peter: With a Full Account of the Same by James Rendel Harris (1893)
"THE docetic GOSPEL OF PETER. THE reader will see a word at the head of this chapter which will perhaps look strange to him ; but as he reads what we have to ..."

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