The heretical religious doctrine that Christ possessed an incorruptible body that could not suffer or die in the ordinary sense.
From Aphthartodocetae + -ism (noun suffix denoting a doctrine or movement). This form emphasizes the belief system itself rather than its adherents.
Ancient Christianity generated so many competing heresies that we've forgotten most of them, but the names live on as linguistic time capsules—each term represents centuries of fierce theological debate compressed into Greek and Latin roots.
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