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(Christianity) The doctrine of the Docetes, that Jesus only appeared to have a physical body and was ultimately of celestial substance. quotations examples
His Passion and Resurrection in history were therefore not fleshly events, even if they seemed so; they were heavenly play-acting (the doctrine known as Docetism, from the Greek verb dokein, ‘to seem’).
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 124