Block, SkipCaptcha, Automoderated users, edit
2,947
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 1:
Line 1: − + Line 6:
Line 6: − + + + + + + + + + + +
extending text and adding references
'''Docetism''' was one of the very early church [[heresies]]. The Docetists were a group of early [[Christian]]s who believed that [[Jesus]] was totally divine and His humanity was simply an appearance.<ref>Cited by [[M. Scott Peck]] in ''Further Along the Road Less Traveled'', Page 206</ref>
'''Docetism''' was one of the very early church [[heresies]]. The Docetists were a group of early [[Christian]]s who believed that [[Jesus]] was totally divine and His humanity was simply an appearance.<ref>Cited by [[M. Scott Peck]] in ''Further Along the Road Less Traveled'', Page 206</ref>
According to O.Skarsaune the early ordinary or orthodox Christians such as [[Ignatius of Antioch|Ignatius]] were fighting valiantly against docetic Christology that was native for [[Gnostic]] heresy. The usual Christian conception of incarnation of Christ was remote to Gnostics, in their heretical belief system the whole point of Christ's mission was to free humans from the material universe. He himself could not be a part of it by carrying a real, ''physical'' body, he only appeared (Greek, ''dokein'') to have one.<ref>{{cite book
According to O.Skarsaune the early ordinary or orthodox Christians such as [[Ignatius of Antioch|Ignatius]] and [[Polycarp of Smyrna|Polycarp]] were fighting valiantly against docetic Christology that was native for [[Gnostic]] heresy. The usual Christian conception of incarnation of Christ was remote to Gnostics, in their heretical belief system the whole point of Christ's mission was to free humans from the material universe. He himself could not be a part of it by carrying a real, ''physical'' body, he only appeared (Greek, ''dokein'') to have one.<ref name="Skarsaune">{{cite book
|author=Oskar Skarsaune
|author=Oskar Skarsaune
|title=In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influence on Early Christianity
|title=In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influence on Early Christianity
|year=2002
|year=2002
|location=Downers Grove, IL
|location=Downers Grove, IL
|pages=
|pages=252
|chapter=12:Orthodoxy and Heresy
|isbn=978-0-8308-2844-9
|isbn=978-0-8308-2844-9
|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=2q6qTb-A7GwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Oskar+Skarsaune+In+the+shadow+of+the+temple&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6WuMUIihIJTN4QSbnoGIBQ&redir_esc=y
|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=2q6qTb-A7GwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Oskar+Skarsaune+In+the+shadow+of+the+temple&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6WuMUIihIJTN4QSbnoGIBQ&redir_esc=y
}}</ref> In reality, he was supposed to be some kind of pure spirit-being, with no affinity to material world, thus his suffering and death were no real either. Ignatius tried to refute this error also by appeals to the '[[eucharist]]' which referred to Christ's body and blood<ref name="Smith"/> and by emphasis put on word "truly" before expressions "born of a Virgin" and "nailed to a tree in the flesh" in his creed.<ref name="Skarsaune"/> Docetic heresy of the early second century reappeared in various forms later in other heresies.<ref name="Smith">{{cite book
|title=From Christ to Constantine
|author=M.A.Smith
|publisher=Inter-Varsity Press
|location=London
|year=1971
|pages=35, 184
|isbn=0-85110-570-X
|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=9coLOAAACAAJ&dq=0-85110-570-X&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1nKMUJWCPKPe4QS60oHAAQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
==References==
==References==