The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition

by Jean-Yves Leloup

The great blasphemy and distortion of the Docetists is this: Christ did not come to save (i.e., heal, transfigure, resurrect) the flesh; he came to save us from the flesh. He incarnated so as to show us how to disincarnate as well as possible.