which were emphatically designed in terms of the true deity and humanity of Christ. The search for the essential core of Docetism is quickly rewarded. It was patent wherever it sought entrance in the church. The central motif of Docetism, though it is not always conscious, consists in the conviction that a tie-up, a genuine union between God (or the divine) and the physical, material, and terrestrial is basically impossible. Basic to all Docetism is a dualism which in one way or another reveals itself