According to the doctrine of so-called docetic Christology, earthly Jesus and heavenly Christ were two different persons; it was who suffered on cross, whereas just entered body for a while abandoned before his death cross; consequently, suffering mere appearance. Based some passages from Gnostic texts containing examples author attempts here trace origin that concept, starting with New Testame...

tenable. 20. Students of Pauline Christology and eccIesiology have to tease out the apostle's meaning when they confront some problem texts. The merit of R. Yates' extended note on one such text (' A Reexamination of Ephesians 1: 23', ExpT 83. 5, pp. 146-151) is that he covers and considers all the viable possibilities before stating his verdict. Thus the reader has a conspectus of the field be...