Hunting down a Ghost: A Critical Study of the Concept of Docetism and Its Use and Abuse in Ancient and Modern Discussions on Early Christian Christology and Soteriology KU Leuven
Docetism is the word scholars have coined for referring to a number of rather diverse phenomena and teachings attempting to explain that Christ did not really become human and/or did not really suffer on the cross. The concept and the phenomena it claims to cover have hardly ever been studied in a systematic and extensive way. It is telling that the only monograph to be written on docetism is an unpublished Heidelberg PhD dissertation of ...