Bible Encyclopedias
Docetæ

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

A sect of heretics in the early Church who held that the humanity of Christ was only seeming, not real, on the Gnostic or Manichæan theory of the essential impurity and defiling nature of matter or the flesh.

Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Docetæ'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​d/docet.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.