docetism in English
noun
1
the doctrine, important in Gnosticism, that Christ's body was not human but either a phantasm or of real but celestial substance, and that therefore his sufferings were only apparent.
Indeed, this latter focus is an indispensable safeguard against the oldest and most enduring Christological heresy, Docetism : a Jesus removed from the travails of the flesh and the tragedies of history.
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1. The only authentic Bogomil text available to us is the Interrogatio Iohanni. It is clear that they taught a moderate dualism, docetism, and strict asceticism, and that they rejected marriage (Obolensky, passim)