Docetism
noun
an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
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Tertullian exclaims to the Docetist Marcion in c.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan