4.3 The Heresies – Docetics & Marcionites: Denying Christ's Humanity
Way of the Fathers
English - December 27, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality History christian ancient catholic churchfathers history medieval Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For the second heresy, Dr. Papandrea examines the opposite extreme from the first: these are the Docetics, including the most famous docetic teacher, Marcion and his followers. They concluded that Christ was a god, not necessarily different from the many other gods or demigods in the Greco-Roman pantheon, but that he was not really a human.
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For more detail on the heresy of docetism and the Marcionites, see the book: Reading the Early Church Fathers: A History of the Early Church and the Development of Doctrine: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/reading-the-church-fathers/
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