The Doctrine of the Early Church (3)

The humanity of Christ. The same church fathers -- Origin, Clement of Alexandria, Ireneus, Turtullian and others -- clearly and forcibly assert Christ's humanity and refute doeetism at length. Docetism, denying the full reality of the human nature of Christ, corrupted it to a spectre, an apparition. These fathers attached great importance to Christ's flesh, that is, to His full and complete human nature, His virgin birth and (His suffering and dying on the cross. They contended that Christ must...