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My thought: If the character of Christ has been sanitized (to use Archaea's term) it was due to the work of the docetists. They would have been emphasizing the spiritual, rather than physical, nature of Christ. This does, however beg the question: did docetism arise from Hellenistic thought? In trying to get some clues on that, I found this passage from the Catholic Encyclopedia, which is rather archaic in its wording, but addresses the origins of gnosticism. (For Wikipedists, there's also an article here.) These passages refer to the theory that gnosticism is rooted heavily in Platonic thought. Assuming that the theory is correct then, Platonic thought led to gnosticism and later docetism. So if all that is accurate then yes, the aseptic version of Christ was inspired by Hellenic tradition. What does this mean for our understanding of Christ? I have no idea. |
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