docetism

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Docetism
    n 1: the heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that
         Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the
         cross were apparent rather than real

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Docetism \Doc"e*tism\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
   The doctrine of the Docet[ae].
   [1913 Webster]

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